To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

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

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.