So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.
From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.
It’s easy to manipulate your children when they’re absolutely sure you’re stupid.
Once you get a brother, you don’t give him up easy.
If you read to your kids you’ll make readers out of them, partly because they’ll associate reading with good parent time.
Well, how do I know that they don’t know the answer unless I ask?
In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.
I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization – or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
This emotion I’m feeling now, this is love, right?
It’s the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
I listen to music constantly while writing.
Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.
Come in, Bean. Come in Julian Delphiki, longed-for child of good and loving parents. Come in, kidnapped child, hostage of fate. Come and talk to the Fates, who are playing such clever little games with your life.
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 foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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 matter how far I drive.
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.