. . . All these readers have placed themselves inside this story, not as spectators, but as participants, and so have looked at the world, not with my eyes only, but also with their own.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

I'm crazy," said Ender. "But I think I'm OK.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.