That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all.

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.

I died of a broken heart.Oh! And the gunshot wound to the chest!

Most suffering comes from the failure to adapt and a resistance to change.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.

It's easier to discredit the science than to say that climate change is a genuine issue but we don't want to do anything about it.

I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.