I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes.

I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me. And then, I just totally can't understand that. I actually can't. I get really hurt if someone doesn't like me. It's weird.

I'm self-opinionated and I have a sense of self.

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

I don't want realism. I want magic!