We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

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.

I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

Authority does not equal competency.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

I don't pick the roles. Your agent gets a call for you and you go and they all get together, everybody has fun at the reading, and they say, "There's chemistry here." So that's how it happens.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...