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.

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up