We need you to help us figure out how you can help us.

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.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Remember: Let's look for ways to take *care* of each other rather than look for ways to take *advantage* of each other.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

I don't know. How hot is it supposed to be?