Ursula K. Le Guin

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#the-dispossessed #science

I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#laziness #marriage #dreams

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry." "Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#compassion #fantasy #friendship #kids #wonder

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dying #inevitability #life #living #death

I have given my love to what is worthy of love. Is that not the kingdom and the unperishing spring? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#love

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#home #change

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#stories #death

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. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#approve #commit #die #kids #marry

There are no right answers to wrong questions. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#questions #right #right answers #wrong

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#between #box #common #could #deal