Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

"We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."