I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.

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.

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

I am not a number

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.

Writing when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.

Fame is fleeting, honey. Fame is fleeting and it changes.

If you don't have any money, it is still a simple process to create in your feelings an acknowledgement that what you do have is abundance and the world is, in fact an abundant place to be.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.