Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Nobody ever completely means what they say. Even when they think they're telling the truth, there's always something hidden behind their words.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.