Ursula K. Le Guin

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

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

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.