From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

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.

Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.

It's the function of a playwright to write. Some playwrights write a large number of plays, some write a small number.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Don't fight forces, use them.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.