In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now..

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. An….

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world..

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people..

You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim."….

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had bot….

The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then transformed, elu….

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going..

Thanks from keeping me from being a liar," said Nikolai. "What?" "About your having diarrhea." "For you I'd get dysentery." "Now that's friendship..

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to..

He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish.….

When you really know someone, you can't hate him..

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves..

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you ….

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty..

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest..

I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And lo….

Let's fly away and live forever.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians..

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade ….

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves..