Quote of the day: A Pussy Riot member on the upside of being imprisoned

Russian punk rocker Nadya Tolokonnikova on how she spends her time in jail:

Prison is a good place to learn to really listen to your own mind and your own body. I’ve learned to read much more deeply, for instance. For four months, I had nothing to read but the Bible, so I read it for all four months — diligently, picking everything apart. Prison is like a monastery — it’s a place for ascetic practices. After a month here, I became a vegetarian. Walking in circles for an hour in that tiny dusty yard gets you into a pretty meditative state as well. We don’t get much in the way of the news. But enough to get inspired. "

Later in the interview, she comments, in an aside, "unlike Putin, we’re not chickenshit."