Warden Samuel Norton: Do you enjoy working in the laundry?Andy Dufresne: No sir, not especially.
District Attorney: And that also is very convenient, isn't it, Mr. Dufresne?Andy Dufresne: Since I am innocent of this crime, sir, I find it decidedly inconvenient that the gun was never found.
I don't know; every man has his breaking point.
Andy was as good as his word. He wrote two letters a week instead of one. In 1959 the state senate finally clued in to the fact they couldn't buy him off with just a two-hundred-dollar check. Appropriations committee voted an annual payment of five hundred dollars just to shut him up. And you'd be amazed how far Andy could stretch it.