Ursula K. Le Guin

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

The great authors share their souls with us— “literally.”

The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces what they want is control. Ursula K.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't ea Ursula K.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and company Ursula K.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. An Ursula K.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Ursula K.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Light is the left hand of darkness, and darkness the right hand of light.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it’s the readers who build that world in their own minds.

As a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude.

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.