...What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

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.

Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense corrupts the purest souls.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.