You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

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

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.