The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

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.

‘Eighth one this week, ’ he said.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Hitler was unapproachable and impenetrable even for those in his close company.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

I aint gotta get a plaque, I aint gotta get awards I just walk up out the door, all the girls will applaud

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.