In philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In a way, being a Mormon prepares you to deal with science fiction, because we live simultaneously in two very different cultures.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Maybe we're the fools, for thinking we know things. Maybe humans are the only ones who can deal with the fact that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That's how it goes within a family. You think you know each other so well, and so you don't bother hardly getting… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mazer, i don't want to keep dreaming these things. I'm afraid to sleep. I keep thinking of things i don't want to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
She likes us,” said Umbo. “I know, I could feel it too,” said Rigg. “She’s really glad to have us here. I… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared… — 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
