The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

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.

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what “just living” might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.