Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day..

Your dream is a good one. [. . .] The desire that is the very root of life itself: To grow until all the space you can see is part of you, under your….

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network….

Ender stepped under the water and rinsed himself, took the sweat of combat and let it run down the drain. All gone, except they recycled it and we'll….

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies..

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things..

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real g….

You can't change what you don't understand..

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more..

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people..

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're goo….

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever..

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, wh….

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole communi….

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the new….

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging..

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit..

That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting to know each other at all..

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never qui….