Orson Card Quotations

We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

Most people I know are trying very hard to be good people ... that's how we define virtue,

I did it just because my friend asked me to, ... There was a real lack of black male role-model-type heroes in fiction, and he wanted to have a writer he likes do that.

Humans mate with beings who challenge their supremacy. They have conflict between mates, not because their communication is inferior to ours, but because they commune with each other at all.

When magic comes back into the world, ... here's where it comes from, leaking from this drainpipe.

Dread is the first and strongest of the...kinds of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when you know there is something to fear but you have not yet identified what it is. The fear that comes when you first realize that your spouse should have been home hours ago; when you hear a strange sound in the baby's bedroom; when you realize that a window you are sure you closed is now open, the curtains billowing, and you're alone in the house.

For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.