“Yes. There's really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already know the answer....The only thing that makes life… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The body is an arrangement in spacetime, a patterning, a process; the mind is a process of the body, an organ, doing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying." He stopped, for saying the truth aloud was… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There was no more room in the world for whole people, they took up too much space. What she had done to… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
