Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

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.

Count each affliction, whether light or grave, God's messenger sent down to thee.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

I really only did theater in school in college. I did summer stock a couple of times in the summer, and plays that the school put on. But I knew I wanted to be in movies.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.