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Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound,...

The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. -SIDNEY HOOK

I saw, I wrote, and the world changed a little.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

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: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth...

received its first phone call from heaven, Tess Rafferty

As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes

One percent of the brotherhood has their hands on most of the bread. They own the country, their god is the free market, and most people are so unhorrified they won't even question the system. If it...

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but...

These Americans played with fire. Hydrogen bombs, megapower lasers, killer drones, shrunken micro-people…Americans were demon-raisers. Americans awakened technological demons they couldn't control,...

I found the gas," he said. "Now all's I need to do is find the brake.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we...

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.- Ender

It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.

I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a...

What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you...

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

Tig was a unique element with all valences open.

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most...

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you.

At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it 'A Ghoti out of Water.' Ghoti, he liked to point out, could be pronounced like fish. The gh had the f...

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... {S}ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I...

For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay...

Don't lose yourself... inside yourself...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny...