Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

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

You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.