We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

If you read to your kids you'll make readers out of them, partly because they'll associate reading with good parent time.

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

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