A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
Ursula K. Le GuinA moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
Ursula K. Le GuinThose who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le GuinIt's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.
Ursula K. Le Guin