Ursula K. Le Guin

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

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book.

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 machine conceals the machinations.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.