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

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.