“ There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, cutting… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alo… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ [T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To learn which questions are unanswerable, and : this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They have nothing to give. They have no power of making. All their power is to darken and destroy. They cannot leave this place; they are this place; and it should be left to them. They should not be… Ursula K. Le Guin
