Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.
Orson Scott CardI wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott CardBut if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagarโor Graff, if it was himโlaunch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me doing something naughty so important theyโd risk a shuttle and itโs crew just to catch me? I find that quiteโฆ flattering. Sort of like winning the Nobel Prize for scariest villain.
Orson Scott CardThat night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.
Orson Scott Card