A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived.

I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Never mind, just make it fun, nice and useful.

Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.

When finally I mustered the courage to tell a novelist friend that I was talking to editors about a biography, her reply was, 'Oh, that's okay. That's not a real book.'

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

People need to understand the basics of evolution if they are going to reject it—otherwise, they are not contributing anything productive to modern society.

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

It was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to express myself in a way that sports didn't.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

Blaming the system is soothing because it lets you off the hook. But when the system is broken, we wonder why you were relying in the system in the first place.