I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world. Only
I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.Vokep shook his head grimly. It’s the kids, he said. Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go. He sighed....
I found an entry for the Beidr, of the Unon Plane, an aggressive and enterprising people with highly advanced material technologies, who have been in trouble more than once with the Interplanary Agenc...
I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to...
He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to...
He talked a great deal about Truth also, for he was, he said, cutting down beneath the veneer of civilization. It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliof...
He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in the worl...
Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.
Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience.
Are all the scientists here men, then? Scientists? Oiie asked, incredulous. Pae coughed. Scientists. Oh, yes, certainly, they’re all men. There are some female teachers in the girls’ schools, of cours...
A key is a little thing next to the door that it opens. If you lose the key, the door may never be unlocked.
Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be asham...
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that has changed your life, and then you meet the author, and he...
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.
Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable...
Was he leaving home, or going home?