because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

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.

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.

Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.

I have big nuts. huge nuts. Elephantitis of the balls - that's what I have.

Like the ostrich, head under wingWhen the roaring storm breaks,So many people take refugeUnder the soft pillowOf specious arguments.

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Our world is a huge mess right now, and not big enough for masses of intolerant people.