Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived. - Orson Scott Card

How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?

Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.

You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.