Quotes from Orson Scott Card

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

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

What you are is a man who means to be good, and undo the bad he's done, and that's as good as any man ever gets.

From all wise men, O Lord, protect us.

If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him?

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

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

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

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD! bernard said. really? dap said. i didn't know he was signed onto the system

I'm putting you in Dink Meeker's toon. From now on, as far as you're concerned, Dink Meeker is God." "Then who are you?" "The personnel officer who hired God.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.