The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood..

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room..

I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career b….

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women..

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always ….

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy..

You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable..

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabricat….

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly.

People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you giv….

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foun….

Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy..

Darkness bound them closer than light..

Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon..

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you coul….

An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the….

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down..

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that….

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, fo….

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept..