“ It might derail and we'll all be killed. And if we do come to Aisnar? What's Aisnar? Mere hearsay.-—That's morbid, Kasimir said, glimpsing again the walls collapsing.-—No, exhilarating, his friend ans… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all a… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ini and Aevi were entranced by his description of a curriculum that included farming, cparnetry, sewage reclamation, printing, plumbing, road mending, playwriting, and al the other occupations of the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirr… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In other ways my story didn’t follow the tradition. Its subversive elements attracted little attention, no doubt because I was deliberately sneaky about them. A great many white readers in 1967 were n… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In feudal times the aristocracy had sent their sons to university, conferring superiority on the institution. Nowadays it was the other way round: the university conferred superiority on the man. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ In America the imagination is generally looked on as something that might be useful when the TV is out of order. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If we insist that in the real world the ultimate victor must be the good guy, we’ve sacrificed right to might. (That’s what History does after most wars, when it applauds the victors for their superio… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If we hide, Therru, we feed him. We will eat. And we will starve him. Come with me. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If piano is the opposite of forte, graceful chitchat with strangers is definitely my piano. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passe… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I wonder if men find it easier than women do to consider people not as bodies, as lives, but as numbers, figures, toys of the mind to be pushed about a battleground of the mind. This disembodiment giv… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I will not go with you, nor will I be a slave of any Greek. The Earth Mother keeps me here. And you must go a long way for a long time, you must go, my sweet husband until at last, you come to the Wes… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I didn't put it that way to him. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I thought it was for your sake that I came alone, so obviously alone, so vulnerable, that I could in myself pose no threat, change no balance: not an invasion, but a mere messenger-boy. But there's mo… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think the imagination is the single most useful tool mankind possesses. It beats the opposable thumb. I can imagine living without my thumbs, but not without my imagination. I Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I think most old people know that, and many of us try to keep our thinking on the positive side as a matter of self-preservation, as well as dignity, the wish not to end with a prolonged whimper. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, man… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was recovering, and willing to go; he was out of thangen; the instant that was all clear, he was off. He w… Ursula K. Le Guin
