1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

If the other fellow can’t tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn’t trying to kill you.

And it’s true, thought Valentine. I’m not the same person, really, from book to book, because each world changes who I am, even as I write down the story of the world. And this world most of all.

I don’t believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.

We are like you; the thought pressed into his mind. We did not mean to murder, and when we understood, we never came again. We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other’s dreams. How were we to know? We could live with you in peace. Believe us, believe us, believe us.

You underestimate yourself.

Human beings didn’t evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing’s the first thing we learned.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn’t yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.

He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant’s eye.

And anyway most people are idiots. They don’t care about the why. They only care about what threatens them.