1,174 Quotes by Orson Scott Card

The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

Once you duct-tape a Ziploc bag to a man's chest, there's no going back.

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

The first of a thousand lies. Truth flowed to Micah Quill, was sucked in and disappeared, and emerged again looking ever so much like it used to, but changed subtly, at the edges, where none would notice, so that simple truth became a complicated fabric indeed, one that could wrap you up so tightly and close you off from the air until you suffocated in it.

I own the whole world, and folks haven't been keeping up too well on the payments.

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.