Jenji Kohan Quotes

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I love going out and doing new things.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

The journey is my home.

When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

All of us can't wait to get out there whatever way.

In the internment camp, there was nothing to do.

I want to go out and do things... not just stick around having room service for two days.

My biggest dream was to get out of Michigan - to discover life beyond the Sacred Heart Convent.