There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal.

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

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.

A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.