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“He went on writing letters to Urras, even when he mailed none of them at all. The fact of writing for someone who might understand-who might have understood-made it possible for him to write, to think. Otherwise it was not possible.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you break faith with what you know, that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that's enough. Love has never been a popular movement and no one's ever wanted really to be free. The world is held togther, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of very few people. Otherwise, of course you're in despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that person, you could be that cop. And you have to decide in yourself not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“It had never been the world’s greatest or most reliable car, but it had been through a great deal with her—including babies, getting shot, transporting a British spy and on one rather memorable occasion, going through a roadblock with an IRA member in the boot.”
― Cindy Brandner, Where Butterflies Dream

“But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology? In the region of the unprovable, or even the disprovable, lay the only chance for breaking out of the circle and going ahead.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia