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

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

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

nobody ever wrote to me saying"you know ender's game was a pretty good book, but you know what it really needs a n introduction!".....so be assured the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, i not only won't stand in your way i'll even agree with you!

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.