It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

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.

Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs?

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

Real beauty is my aim.

I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.