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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

You don't have to answer someone's questions. That's just how I was raised.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.