“ My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. There Ursula K. Le Guin
“ My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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.… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I don’t like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don’t want to live in yours. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ How do I know, she said at last, that you are what you seem to be?You don't, Said he. I don't know what I seem, to you. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ His efforts to break out of his essential seclusion were, in fact, a failure, and he knew it. He made no close friend. He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to b… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He thought of death, in that gap between the beginning of a step and its completion, and at the end of the step he stood on a new earth. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while ano… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not. Ursula K. Le Guin
