Ursula K. Le Guin

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.