You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

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.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

Pause while reading a book only in case of two things:1. To kiss2. To sip coffeeToo bad both are a luxury.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

War is progress, peace is stagnation.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.

It's some of our guys' first game on the road, and it really can jolt your body.

I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.'

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

All my friends are talented enough to get nominated for awards. I just am always surprised when things and people I like are also liked by things like the Oscars.