It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.