All is going well, very well, I couldn’t ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.