For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't exactly communicate with them, but you can get them to swarm in one place and when they're not looking, you can carry off the honey.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.