" Irresponsible as a tourist, I wandered around in my universe forgetting what I'd said about it the last time, and then trying to conceal discrepancies with implausibilities, or with silence. If, as some think, God is no longer speaking, maybe it is because he looked at what he'd made and found himself unable to believe it. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 1: Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories