“What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.”
“Imagine for a moment what a real bonobo legacy would be: a world without team sports!”
“I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.”
“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”
“Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes”
“If more people learned to understand their real business interests correctly and to act accordingly, we would have a much better world.”