The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

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 small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.

Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.

When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.

I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.