I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

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.

Integrity is when your good intentions meet your actions - on a consistent basis.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.

The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds Importing health and graveness.