You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

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 know!" he growls back, his voice guttural. I wonder if all of his fire kind have eyes like his. Eyes that burn and smolder.

Grouses that go unheard only grow louder, till they reach a level of frustration where they become silent but permanent disappointments.

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

Life's too short to spend all the time in the gym. I just like to have a few beers and enjoy myself too.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us that the Lord will provide.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!