Good people do not let others suffer needlessly..

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space..

In order to learn, one must change one's mind..

I listen to music constantly while writing..

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself..

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask..

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous..

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way..

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse..

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that….

That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, h….

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely..

Humanity does not ask to be happy.It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it... Take wha….

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man..

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguis….

Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws ….

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than m….

He could see Bonzo's anger growing hot. Hot anger was bad. Ender's anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo's was hot, and so it used him..

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their clev….

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

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you.