I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Firequencher raised his hand. "I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.