I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble.
Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.
But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.