A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

So I want to ask you a hypothetical question. My favorite kind. Next to rhetorical ones. I can nap equally well through either kind.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.