A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
Ursula K. Le GuinIn so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Ursula K. Le GuinThe pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours.
Ursula K. Le GuinVirginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.
Ursula K. Le GuinReading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.
Ursula K. Le Guin