Jim Goad Quotes

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

Anyone who reads '33 Men' will be brought into a world that was practically a textbook case of sensory deprivation and torture.

I got beat up my whole life.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I paused, looking over my shoulder to make certain I was alone. I drew her eye makeup, smudged by tears. In her watery eyes I drew the reflection of the commander, standing in front of her, his fist clenched. I continued to sketch, exhaled, and shook out my hands.

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

I got my teeth kicked in for a good 25 years.

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

I've put my friends and family through the wringer over the years, I have to say, by doing unspeakable things to people, not the least of which was pulling out poor George Clooney's fingernails in Syriana.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I never had a true childhood.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.