In war, everyone has their chance to bleed..

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you..

The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to t….

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in thei….

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

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, b….

You will learn to defeat the enemy..

Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion..

In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which yo….

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans..

Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing..

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are..

You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part….

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impo….

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves..

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things..

But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagi….

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before..

All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words..

Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to ….