Ursula K. Le Guin — "An unfree mind is a mind that has been taught to believe in what is untrue."

"I write for myself and for my friends. And for the people who are not my friends, but who might become my friends."

"I'm not a very good politician. I'm too honest."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid."

"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."