I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two.The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew.The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new,And I wondered, wh...
Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty.
Stories are invented as you go along...
Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they li...
An enemy, Ender Wiggin, whispered the old man. I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will tell you what the e...
While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's room and play checkers and have pillow fights.
Today, one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?You answered...I told him that I am now more free than he is. The inability to...
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.
I will never hurt you.I will always help you.If you are hungryIll give you my food.If you are frightenedI am your friend.I love you now.And love does not end.
He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other...
Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American a...
You get all the pleasures of the puppeteer.
When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.
The devil takes his victories, the man replied, wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.
Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
I didn't want to kill them all. I didn't want to kill anybody! I'm not a killer! You didn't want me, you bastards, you wanted Peter, but you made me do it, you tricked me into it!