None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.

I love you Ender. More than ever. No matter what you decide.

We people only live on the top, like the bugs that live on the scum of the still water near the shore.

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.