I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

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.