He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

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.

All that grieved me - that I was half one thing and half another and nothing wholly - was the sorrow of my childhood, but the strength and use of my life after I grew up.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

A book is a loaded gun.

The press today is full of people who are not qualified and not trying very hard to be good reporters.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.