A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

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 don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine

Life is education.Education is a lifetime knowledge.

I don't know how I ever really lived before my husband came into my life.

I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

Trusting God completely means having faith that he knows what is best for your life. You expect him to keep his promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.