Orson Scott Card Quotes

How could you lose me, when you've never had me, never wanted me?

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this chapel were shut,
And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door,
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore, And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars my joys and desires.

The billion billion paths of his life lay open before him, waiting for his first choices, for the first changes in the world around him to eliminate a million futures every second.

When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.

Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.

Maybe she just wanted to be the one to decide when things happened between them. Then again, what women didn't want to decide that?

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

You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes—enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.

When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.

Most of the things people say they remember they only imagine anyways.