Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.