1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.

Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true.

And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.