“ If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what ha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I tried to speak insipidly, yet everything I said seemed to take on a double meaning. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think what you mostly do when you find you really are alone is to panic. You rush to the opposite extreme and pack yourself into groups - clubs, teams, societies, types. You suddenly start dressing… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I spoke your true name. It's not what I thought it would be. And I don't feel easy about it. As if I'd left something unfinished. But it is your name. If it betrays you, then that's the truth of it. R… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return.Nothing? You call your theory nothingWeigh it in the balance with the freedom of one single human spirit, he said, turning to her, and… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one’s own name written in a strange alphabet… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I lied. I lied. I lied. I lied deliberately, knowingly, well. She lied. She is a liar. She is an intellectual too! She is a lie. And a coward, afraid. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I know who I was, I can tell you who I may have been, but I am, now, only in this line of words I write. I'm not sure of the nature of my existence, and wonder to find myself writing. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain ploughland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundar… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring? Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I don’t know. Do men kill men, except in madness? Does any beast kill its own kind? Only the insects. These yumens kill us as lightly as we kill snakes. The one who taught me said that they kill one a… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire willpower, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I am not sure who I am, I said cautiously.Many people never are, she said. But it doesn't matter, you know. If for one moment of your whole life you know that you are, then that's your life, that mome… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Honorifics and meaningless ritual phrases of greeting, leave-taking, permission-asking, and false gratitude, please, thank you, you're welcome, goodbye, fossil relics of primitive hypocrisy—all were s… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Homer truly doesn’t take sides, and so he permits the story to be tragic. By tragedy, mind and soul are grieved, enlarged, and exalted. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise and hate. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Here, the government can check not only act but thought. Surely no men should have such power over others. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He was not interested in detached knowledge, science for science's sake: there was no use learning anything if it was of no use. Relevance was his touchstone. Ursula K. Le Guin
