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

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.