You who speak languages, you are such liars.

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.

The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess, it means, have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but take it slow. Ease into it.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

A final and long-lasting solution to the Kosovo issue cannot be achieved without an agreement with Serbia, especially in regard to the U.N.

Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.