The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

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 corrects the errors of logic.

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark.

The future is a monotonous instrument

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

In hell it is difficult to tell people from other people.

You have to concentrate on the swing.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

To be second with one game to go - you can't ask for more.

Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.