Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

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.

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

Nature is the master of talents genius is the master of nature.

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

The transmission systems are still regulated.

but his eyes were too dark for her to make out any spark in them

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*