I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.