If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val

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.

Happy wife, happy life.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.

A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.