Science Fiction has rivets, fantasy has trees.

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 is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment at which you turn to God and say, ‘You must do this. I can't.

She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.

If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

Buying a used rental car is kind of like going to a house of ill repute looking for a wife. Anything that's been driven that hard by that many people, you really don't want to put your key in it.

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.