Unfortunately, we live in a time when the media are almost a monoculture.

Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.

Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life