If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

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

I buy way too many books.

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.