If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

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.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

Are You Driving With Your Eyes Open? Or Are You like Using The Force?

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

People who are empathic definitely will have some difficulties distinguishing their own feelings from other people's feelings and they tend to take on other people's energies quite easily.

I like to challenge myself.

If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.

Concurring hands divide flax for damask that when bleached by Irish weather has the silvered chamois-leather water-tightness of a skin.

I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.