Quotes from Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

Madness, and then illumination.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.