In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

...not with the Depression walking around outside the prison walls like a dangerous criminal, one that couldn't be caged as our charges were.

[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

oh shit it's shit

Smoke puffed from the open V of his shirt. And still the humming of the electricity went on and on, filling my head, vibrating in there. I think it's the sound mad people must hear, that or something like it.

The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

The wide corridor up the centre of E Block was floored with linoleum the colour of tired old limes, and so what was the Last Mile at other prisons was called the Green Mile at Cold Mountain.

When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself.

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.