What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer.

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

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.