Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 24, 1951
I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending..
It's the teachers, they're the enemy. They get us to fight each other, to hate each other..
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can n….
One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war..
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational..
I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past..
Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back..
The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whate….
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you..
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven..
The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key..
The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy..
It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, a….
Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started….
I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actuall….
Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matte….
Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was….
When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?.
Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud m….
The only way to learn is by changing your mind..
I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy..