When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

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.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one musn't make a virtue of it, or a profession...Insofar as I love life, I love [my country], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.