Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

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.

He swallowed his food this time and actually spoke instead of humphing,

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Prettiness dies first.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

The world is a playground -Indian

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me," I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.