What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how we shape our future.

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.