Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.