“There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.”

“I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such intercourse will inevitably be sterile. It remains to be proved; Estraven and I proved nothing except perhaps a rather subtler point.”

“You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.”

“To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”

“No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.”

“Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.”

“Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.”