Ursula K. Le Guin

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.

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

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

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.