“ They just came to look, as if she were the Great Tower in Rodarred, or the Canyon of the Tulaevea. A phenomenon, a monument. They were awed, adoring. She snarled at them: Think your own thoughts! Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There’s a point, around age twenty, Bedap said, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There's a great maze of tunnels, a Labyrinth. It's like a great dark city, under the hill. Full of gold, and the swords of old heroes, and old crowns, and bones, and years, and silence.'She spoke if i… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet but kept pouring out until shut off—a sign, S… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There were people who swore as an art form—performing a dazzling juncture of the inordinate and the unexpected. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There is nothing, the Ice says, but Ice. – But the young volcano there to northward has another word it thinks of saying. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. There are two kinds of time,local and historical. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ There are a limited number of plots (some say seven, some say twelve, some say thirty). There is no limit to the number of stories. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful the life is, is from the vantage point of death. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The unknown, said Faxe’s soft voice in the forest, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The tree said in its rooted being, All my leaves are seen, but one, this one in the darkness cast by all the others. This one leaf I keep secret to myself. Who will see it in the darkness of my leaves… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The presence of females was oppressive to them all. It seemed to them that lately the world was full of girls. Everywhere they looked, waking or asleep, they saw giris. They had all tried copulating w… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The poet Gary Snyder’s finely unpoetic image of composting is useful here. Stuff goes into the writer, a whole lot of stuff, not notes in a notebook but everything seen and heard and felt all day ever… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The opposite of spare time is, I guess, occupied time. In my case I still don’t know what spare time is because all my time is occupied. It always has been and it is now. It’s occupied by living. An i… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The law of evolution is that the strongest survives! Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical. You see, we have neith… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The insistent permissiveness of the late twentieth century had produced fully as much sex-guilt and sex-fear in its heirs as had the insistent repressiveness of the late nineteenth century. Orr Ursula K. Le Guin
