In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.

It's simple. Nothing exists except in relation to something else.

Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.