Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

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.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

My own idea of a $5,500 .45 auto is a used Volkswagon with a Glock 30 in the glove box.

Difficult people are the greatest teachers.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.