With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.

The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.

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

A character is what he does, yes - but even more, a character is what he means to do.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.