Running from a fight you can’t win doesn’t mean you’re a coward.
It means you’re smart.

Invasive Procedures, 2007

Kids were amazing, thought Frank. No guile.
They just say it like it is, even to a total stranger.

Invasive Procedures, 2007

Control was not to tie him down, but to fill him up.

Songmaster, 1980

That was the way communication was among women, most of the time; few women realized it, but they all depended on it. “Women’s intuition” wasn’t intuition at all, it was heightened observation, unconscious registration of subtle clues.

Enchantment

And Arthur Stuart thought, not for the first time, that these really powerful people were like a little club, they all knew each other and people like him were always having to stand just outside.

The Crystal City

I didn’t choose my life, or the powers I have, or even most of the things that have happened to me. But for all the things that have been forced on me, I’m still a free man. And you know why? Because I choose them anyway. What was forced on me, I choose just the same.

The Crystal City

The beauty of chastity is that when death comes,
you’ll regard it as a blessed relief.

The Worthing Chronicle

Too much order always seemed to bore God or Fate or Providence or whoever decided such things. There was always a little chaos just to liven things up.

The Crystal City

Orson’s Observation: For every expert, there is an equal and opposite expert.

Card’s Corollary: There is no subject on which anybody knows everything.

“The War of Stories,” August 8, 2004

Someone has to be an audience for the play you people are always improvising. All of you trying for the center stage. All of you trying to get the audience to notice you, to declare you the star, so that when you die, the curtain will come down and the show will end. But it never does. No one was ever the star after all.

Earthborn, 1995