We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

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.

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Virtually all bad ideas come from universities, bad ideas that only survive when insulated from reality.

Watching Clay Guida fight is like watching a Tasmanian devil.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.

I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.