“ Hemos llegado, desde una gran distancia el uno al otro. Siempre lo hemos hecho. A través de grandes distancias, a través de años, a través de abismos de casualidad. Porque él viene de tan lejos, nada… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ 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… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another perso… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For they were alone, and he was one of the seven persons in the world who knew the Archmage's name. The others were the Master Namer of Roke; and Ogion the Silent, the wizard of Re Albi, who long ago… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ebediyet beni ilgilendirmez. Ben bir meşeyim, ne bir eksik ne bir fazla. Bir görevim var ve yerine getiriyorum; hoşlandığım şeyler var ve onlardan keyif alıyorum. Gerçi sayıca azaldılar. Çünkü kuşlar… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely! Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But I liked the writing better. I could make it look beautiful. I could keep it. The spoken words just went out like the wind, and you always had to say them all over again to keep them alive. But the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ But I guess I can't, or my subconscious can't, even imagine a warless world. The best it can do is substitute one kind of war for another. You said, no killing of humans by other humans. So I dreamed… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the great novels we need right now—and right now some man or woman is writing a new one we… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Apollo blinds those who press too close in worship. Don’t look straight at the sun. Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. I Ursula K. Le Guin
“ An early visitor described a Veksi village as five big houses full of women swearing at each other and fourteen little houses full of men sulking. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean jo… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ En ese curso de Historia Aplicada que seguí cuando me preparaba para el Allá Lejos, decían que la esclavitud nunca dio resultado. Que era antieconómica.De acuerdo, pero esto no es esclavitud, mi queri… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ ¿Cómo odia uno a un país, o lo ama? Tibe habla de eso; yo no soy capaz. Conozco gente, conozco ciudades, granjas, montañas y ríos y piedras, conozco cómo se pone el sol en otoño del lado de un cierto… Ursula K. Le Guin