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

All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

I don't know if it's right to count people like you count numbers.

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

I'd rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.

By and large books are mankind's best invention.

I want the story to have a rhythm that keeps moving forward. Because that's the whole point of telling a story. You're on a journey -- you're going from here to there. It's got to move. Ursula K.

Hollowed out,
clay makes a pot.
Where the pot's not
is where it's useful.

Where there's property, there's theft.

If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.

Which of us saved the other from the Labyrinth, Ged?

I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.

Fiction--and poetry and drama-- cleanse the doors of perception.

I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?