[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

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.

Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.

Percy: Don't I get a kiss for luck? It's kind of a tradition, right?Annabeth: Come back alive, Seaweed Brain. Then we'll see.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.

Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.