“ When asked to define the difference between fantasy and science fiction, I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the spectrum, that very useful spectrum, along which one thing shades into a… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ What is it like to return from the dead? Not easy. Not for the one who returns, nor for his people. The place he occupied in their world has closed up, ceased to be, filled with accumulated change, ha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Wealth, status, pride, are their own ruin. To do good, work well, and lie low is the way of the blessing. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We men dream dreams, we work magic, we do good, we do evil. The dragons do not dream. They are dreams. They do not work magic: it is their substance, their being. They do not do; they are. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ We left with empty hands, a hundred and seventy years ago, and we were right. We took nothing. Because there is nothing here but States and their weapons, the rich and their lies, and the poor and the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To be the man he can be, Ged has to find out who and what his real enemy is. He has to find out what it means to be himself. That requires not a war but a search and a discovery. The search takes him… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Though I had been nearly two years on Winter I was still far from being able to see the people of the planet through their own eyes. I tried to, but my efforts took the form of self-consciously seeing… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievem… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This weight of verifiable place-event-phenomenon-behavior makes the reader forget that he is reading a pure invention, a history that never took place anywhere but in that unlocalizable region, the au… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This story is not all mine, nor told by me alone. Indeed, I am not sure whose story it is; you can judge better. But it is all one, and if at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This is part of what I meant about housework. If it isn't important, what is? If it isn't done honorably, where is honor? Ista Ursula K. Le Guin
“ This is morally problematic when personal decision is confused with personal opinion. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They way one does research into nonexistent history is to tell the story and find out what happened. I believe this isn't very different from what historians of the so-called real world do. Even if we… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ They say one gets used to being a millionaire; so after a year or two a human being begins to get used to being a woman. Ursula K. Le Guin
