This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

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.

When you accept you are a winner, that is when you will triumph.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love that child

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.

Memphis held onto me until I was far enough along in my art and then it let me go.

In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.