Ursula Le Guin

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

‘The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin.’ We can’t stop here. We must go on. We must take the risks.”

true departure is return.

letter sent me a couple of years ago by a young reader, who wrote:
The city of happiness, well, we all live there and people go about their business with full knowledge of the child in the closet.
And then at times I refuse to believe we are in the city of happiness and that instead we are all ones who walked away. Until I read in the news that a man was waterboarded 103 times in one month. Then I think we are all in the closet. Too stupid to understand what life we could have outside the walls around us

To me the “female principle” is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic

the truth is a matter of the imagination.

would always be one for whom the return was as important as the voyage out. To go was not enough for him, only half enough; he must come back.

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been

What have you left, then? Isolation and despair! You’re denying brotherhood, Shevek!” the tall girl cried.

“No—no, I’m not. I’m trying to say what I think brotherhood really is. It begins—it begins in shared pain.”

“Then where does it end?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know yet.”

Laia Asieo Odo
698—769
To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.