Spencer

“Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness

“I do not know what makes a man a traitor. No man considers himself a traitor: this makes it hard to find out.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“As they say in Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. I was not sleepy, yet.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Left Hand of Darkness

“I don't know where being a servant came into disrepute. It is the refuse of a philosopher, the food of the lazy, and, properly carried out, it is a position of power, even of love. I can't understand why more intelligent people don't take it as a career--learn to do it well and reap its benefits. A good servant has absolute security, not because of his master's kindness, but because of habit and indolence...He'll keep a bad servant rather than change. But a good servant, and I am an excellent one, can completely control his master, tell him what to think, how to act, whom to marry, when to divorce, reduce him to terror as a discipline, or distribute happiness to him, and finally be mentioned in his will...My master will defend me, protect me. You have to work and worry. I work less and worry less. And I am a good servant. A bad one does not work and does no worrying, and he still is fed, clothed, and protected. I don't know any profession where the field is so cluttered with incompetents and where excellence is so rare.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden