Ursula K. Le Guin — "The creative adult is the child who survived."

"The trouble with you, my dear, is that you think you're important."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"Freedom is a heavy load, a beautiful and terrible thing."

"I am a man. Now you may think I’ve made some kind of silly mistake about gender, or maybe that I’m trying to fool you, because my first name ends in 'a,' and I own three bras and a pair of high-heeled…"

"I write fantasy and science fiction because I want to describe the world as I see it, not as it is supposed to be."