Piper Kerman Quote

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of info...

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

It is still cheating, even if nobody comes.

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.