This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

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.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

I've learned to be comforted in the dark spot of my mind.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.