Even a poet cannot get everything right.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

As a writer, you are free.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?" "Hah!" went Tenar; and presently, with some cunning, she said, "Haven't there been queens? Weren't they women of power?" "A queen's only a she-king," said Ged. She snorted. "I mean, men give her power. They let her use their power. But it isn't hers, is it? It isn't because she's a woman that she's powerful, but despite it.

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

The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.