Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

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

If the other fellow can't tell you his story, you can never be sure he isn't trying to kill you.

Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.