“I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.”

“Too many locks, not enough keys.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

“Mothers, lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

“I am well protected
Too locked up
Inside myself
To get free”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.”

Sebastian Faulks book Birdsong

“They've found this spider, in the jungle. Three foot long, it eats chicken. Bit weird, innit. People moan saying that you shouldn't lock animals up and all the rest of it, but to be honest I wish it was locked up. The idea that it's roaming in a jungle… get it locked up.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“People are locked up in all sorts of ways.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

“Honestly, she should be locked up. She should be. Should be locked up.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. "She loved too much."”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica