Can you walk the road your dream goes? Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to. Who is not. ... - Ursula K. Le Guin

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast.... The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to accident and time. Purity is on the edge of evil, they say.

Indeed, until she had met Lev at school, it had not occurred to her that anyone might prefer to speak a plain fact rather than a lie that sounded well. People said what suited their purposes, when they were serious; and when they weren’t serious, they talked without meaning anything at all.