There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

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

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained no man can be truly free. He may have power but he will not have freedom.

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.