The more defensive a society, the more conformist. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It seemed, at least, that they had not taught the boy to lie. But they had not taught him to know truth from lies.

He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.