Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

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.

Lucid dreams often feel like this—as if you are observing yourself from a point over your shoulders-arm flexed, hands curving around the boom, breathing, in three dimensional silence.

My journey was not over, it was just beginning.

It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic the passions that we feel expand it those that we inspire contract it and habit fills up the rest.

I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

You want to be a writer? Start writing. You want to be a filmmaker? Start shooting stuff on your phone right now.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.

Your shower is ready - I turned it on last night.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.