And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.

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

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val