The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

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'm hanging onto my sanity by a thread. I'll have you up against this tree and be inside you in about one second.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

I still think that it's time for something that reflects the American people.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

Weeds play an important part in building soil fertility and in balancing the biological community . . .

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

The more you know, the better you can imagine.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.