A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed..

Do the gods of different nations talk to each other?...Is there some annual get-together where they compare each other's worshippers? Mine will bow t….

What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want ….

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

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion..

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most….

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets..

I don't freeze up because it isn't my battle. I'm helping. I'm watching. But I'm free. Because it's Ender's game..

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they hav….

At last he came to a door, with these words in glowing emeralds: THE END OF THE WORLD He did not hesitate. He opened the door and stepped through..

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone..

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price..

Remember, the enemy's gate is down..

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about ….

And if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your own da….

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be….

I buy way too many books..

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent..

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but….

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them..

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val.