To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.