A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

You cannot catch a whale and a fish with the same bait.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man.

Let us take from Nature only what we really need, and try to give back to some extent.

I do what I think is right.

I have always been caught by the pull of the unremarkable, by the easily missed, infinitely nourishing beauty of the mundane.