This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people wh….

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing..

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, wh….

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns….

Where ideas are real and reality is shadow..

I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments..

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it..

Madness, and then illumination..

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie..

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes….

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice..

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any..

Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that nothing can ever be known at all..

Science isn't done by consensus. It's done by rigorous testing..

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit..

It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them..

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other..

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to ch….

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val.

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth abou….