Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

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.

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction.

#Twitter: proudly promoting ghastly grammar and silly misspelling since 2006.

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.

You make a lot of mistakes. I haven't seen that movie [The Lost World] in 20 years. But if I saw it, I'm sure I could pick out a whole lot of mistakes.

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

I believe that through music we can help heal the world.