Orson Scott Card

“העתיד הוא מאה אלף חוטים, אך העבר הוא אריג שאי אפשר לטוותו שוב.”

“כאשר גבר נשוי, הקסם שהוא מהלך על נשים פוחת במחצית, לפחות. אפילו על נשים נשואות. במיוחד על נשים נשואות, כיוון שהן חושבות שהן יודעות מה טיבם של בעליהם.”

“האהבה היא אקראית. הפחד בלתי נמנע.”

“יש חוקים לכל דבר, גם אם איש לא כתב אותם, גם אם איש לא מגדיר את זה כמשחק. ואם אתה רוצה שדברים יסתדרו, כדאי להכיר את החוקים ולהפר אותם רק אם אתה משחק משחק אחר, ואתה פועל על פי החוקים ההם.”

“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”

“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 like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no danger, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.”

“I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.”

“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 audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience.”

“You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.”

“He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.”

“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.”

“Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.”

“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.”

“Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

“I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.”

“When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.”

“Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.”

“Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.”

“You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'We can't both be Alexander.'Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.”

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.”