Ursula K. Le Guin

“Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake.”

“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”

“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.”

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.”

“There are no right answers to wrong questions.”

“What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on?”

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

“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.”

“To be a man, one must do, not be.”

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new.”

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

“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.”

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.”

“To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.”

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

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”

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