My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart.

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

We're going to fight this battle with everything we have, and we will probably lose. But then we will fight it again, and we will lose a little less, for this battle will win us many supporters. And then we'll lose *again*. And *again*. And we will fight on. Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.