We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life… - Ursula K. Le Guin

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. Out of the sea there rise storms and monsters, but no evil powers: evil is of earth. And there is no sea, no running of river or spring, in the dark land where once Ged had gone. Death is the dry place.

It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences — about cause and effect. Maybe that's why I feel that I live in exile. I used to live in a country that had a future.