Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Telling. Harcourt, 2000.
Bundy was discussing various Vietnam scenarios with a former White House aide who challenged several assumptions and asked Bundy what would happen if the North Vietnamese would escalate their ground war in the South in retaliation for U. S. bombing. Bundy sated that he didn't believe that would happen, but Hughes asked him to assume it would and discuss the consequence.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. She was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, yielding more than twenty novels and over a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin herself said she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".