Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.