I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

I be crazy too, little buddy, but at least when I be craziest, I be floating all alone in space and the crazy, she float out of me, she soak into the walls, and she don't come out till there be battles and little boys bump into the walls and squish out de crazy.

It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.