“ He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labour, lack of variety of occupation, lack of social and sexual intercourse, none of these appeared to him as lacks, but as freedom. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain falling… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He had been groping and grabbing after certainty, as if it were something he could possess. He had been demanding a security, a guarantee, which is not granted: and which, if granted, would become a p… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ He felt disinclined to move. To move would disturb the perfect, stable moment, the balance of the world. The winter light along the ceiling was beautiful beyond expression. He Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Hay tres aspectos de la ambisexualidad que hemos vislumbrado o entrevisto apenas, y que quizá nunca entendamos del todo. Considérese: Cualquiera puede cambiarse en cualquiera de los dos sexos. Esto pa… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Gvarab was old enough that she often wandered and maundered. Attendance at her lectures was small and uneven. She soon picked out the thin boy with big ears as her one constant auditor. She began to l… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ged stood sick and haggard. He said at last, Better I had died. Who are you to judge that, you for whom Nemmerle gave his life?—You are safe here. You will live here, and go on with your training. The… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Farfetching. What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find expression not in rational symbols, but in metaphor. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Esta calamidad asolando las tierras. Las artes del hombre olvidadas. El cantor enmudecido. El ojo ciego. ¿Y entonces? Un falso rey reinando. Reinando para siempre. Y sobre los mismos súbditos para sie… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his progress. That was precisely why he had chosen it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Cultural shock was nothing much compared to the biological shock I suffered as a human male among human beings who were, five-sixths of the time, hermaphroditic neuters. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Contrast J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The author adopts the childish view of adults as inhumanly powerful and uncomprehending, and never goes beyond it; and so his novel, published for adults,… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Consider: Anyone can turn his hand to anything. This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The fact that everyone between seventeen and thirty-five or so is liable to be… Ursula K. Le Guin
