His first night in the joint, Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes. He never made a sound.
Forty years I been asking permission to piss. I can't squeeze a drop without say-so.
I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
It's my life. Don't you understand? IT'S MY LIFE!
