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

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

You have to measure your success by the way your audience responds to your games. No matter how small that audience is, it's yours. Your game is part of the lives and the memories of those people in a way that WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 or Windows can never be.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.