A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle Series Book 1)

A mage can control only what is near him, what he can name exactly and wholly.

So they labored among the waves that ran like smoking mountains under the wind, while the rain beat hard and cold on their backs, and the drum thumped through the noise of the storm like a heart thumping.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This

But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard’s power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a

And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do .

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

“Go to bed; tired is stupid.