There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

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.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you!

If each day falls inside each night, there exists a well where clarity is imprisoned. We need to sit on the rim of the well of darkness and fish for fallen light with patience.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

God is, to me, pretty much a myth created over time to deny the idea that we're all responsible for our own actions.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.