Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

Whether he likes it or not, [he] cannot remain incognito forever. He has outraged too many wise men and pleased too many fools to hide behind his too-appropriate order to assume leadership of the forces of stupidity he has marshalled, or his enemies will unmask him in order to better understand the disease that has produced such a warped and twisted mind.