1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

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 remember. My whole life keeps playing out as if i were a recorder and someone else wanted to watch the most terrible parts of my life

I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.