There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

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.

Believe in your dreams or don't dream at all.

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

People who need to believe in deities can find them everywhere they look.

Family is 100 per cent my top priority.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.