1,226 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Anyway, so what if he was crazy? What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

El pesado ropón negro que llevaba desde hacía años había desaparecido; tenía ahora un vestido de seda color turquesa, brillante y delicado como el cielo del atardecer, acampanado en las caderas. Y la falda estaba toda bordada con finos hilos de plata, perlas y gemas de cristal, y relucía levemente como la lluvia de abril

There are two places: home, away. I lack a map that shows me anywhere but those.

As for ideology, the hell with it. All of it.

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate.

A link: one who could speak aloud the perceptions of the subconscious. To "speak" that tongue it to act. To do a new thing. To change or to be changed, radically, from the root. For the root is the dream.

There was process: process was all. You could go in a promising direction or you could go wrong, but you did not set out with the expectation of ever stopping anywhere. All responsibilities, all commitments thus understood took on substance and duration.

In this effort to attain security, independence and privacy of course were suspect....

Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.