Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

Doesn't it make you wonder about your own sexual identity, not to mention your sanity, that the two women you love are, respectively, a virtual woman existing only in the transient ansible connections between computers and a woman whose soul is in fact that of a man who is the husband of your mother?

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

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.