Quotes About Orson

That's the problem with Peter, said Theresa. Only the one? said Peter.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming, said Ram. We would not be fit companions for human beings without it.

We're not taking odds on it," said Ender. "Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD," Bernard said. "Really?" said Dap. "I didn't know he was signed onto the system.

it was a kind of magic, like her little fires; a sacrifice that somehow stilled the dark gods that hunted for his soul. Better

Besides," said Rigg-the-killer, "I don't want to leave the future of the human race on both planets in the tiny little hands of the sentient mice of Odinfold.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly

But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind.

you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT. LET ME KISS IT. —BERNARD "I didn't write that message!" Bernard shouted.

Who else but a pacifist would attack somebody as little as Wiggin?

Ain't spacetime a bitch," said Ram. "Noted," said the expendable. "Nineteen times.

If they had the ordinary amount of good luck. Which didn't seem to be the trend at the moment.

A maimed bunny rabbit could pin me in under two seconds. I'm a lover, not a fighter.

only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

Isaac Asimov's Foundation

Their explanations might have been completely legitimate, or they might have been sesquipedalian bushwa.

Bishop Peregrino smiled grimly, the way a duelist might salute a worthy opponent.

long stories in the same series (as well as a couple of stabs at mainstream stories).

The battered old DC 3 lay at the end of the runway like a tiny silver cross.

But if that's the case, Anderson, then in my opinion God is a bugger. You can quote me on that.

The Hegemon was a companion piece, really, to The Hive Queen. The one book was the story of an entire species; and so was the other.