Jorge Volpi Quotes

#1. Prison is quite literally a ghetto in the most classic sense of the world, a place where the U.S. government now puts not only the dangerous but also the inconvenient - people who are mentally ill, people who are addicts, people who are poor and uneducated and unskilled.

Piper Kerman

#2. I never understood what Jaime saw in you, apart from his own reflection.

George R R Martin

#3. The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

Bill Johnson

#4. I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

Jamaica Kincaid

#5. I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#6. I've always had an active imagination.

Rickie Lee Jones

#7. Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

Morgan Freeman

#8. History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

Tim Wu

#9. It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth - begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality?

Jorge Volpi

#12. Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

Nick Willing