“ Privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ [H.G. Wells said] that his method was "to trick his reader into an unwary concession to some plausible assumption and get on with his story while the illusion holds." Such prestidigitation is a charac… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For w… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things were his to order, to command. He stood at the cen… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. — CHUANG TSE : XXIII Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Time says Let there beevery moment and instantlythere is space and the radianceof each bright galaxy.And eyes beholding radiance.And the gnats’ flickering dance. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the tabl… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There is no more subversive act than the act of writing from a woman's experience of life using a woman's judgment.Prospects for Women in Writing 1986 Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The reality of our life is in love, in solidarity, said a tall, soft-eyed girl. Love is the true condition of human life.Bedap shook his head. No. Shev’s right, he said. Love’s just one of the ways th… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. Ursula K. Le Guin
