Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books, not to be indiscriminately enforced against anyone who happens to be caught violating… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this. To see what could be, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But whether there's some grand design really matters little to me. My only hope was this: to see what might be, to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
