No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and friendship might be within same-sex couples, there is no act of court or Congress that can make these relationships the same as the coupling between a man and a woman.
Orson Scott CardOops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.
Orson Scott CardIndividual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.โ โThatโs a lie.โ โNo. Itโs just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.
Orson Scott CardA character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.
Orson Scott Card