He knew that insofar as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
- from The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

- from The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

There are roads inside the mind and outside it the mere elaborateness of which shows plainly that, to have got into this, a wrong turning must have been taken way back.
- from The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not.
- from The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin