I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

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

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

I am a creature of chemicals.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.