When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.

I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

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.