Jack Vance Quotes

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasu...

The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.

Where was his knife, upon which he relied? He had cut cheese for their noonday meal, and had packed ...

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speak...

How I hate you," he said softly. "If hate were stone I could build a tower into the clouds.

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious...

Good music always defeats bad luck.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Other...

I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in on...

Guyal of Sfere had been born one apart from his fellows and early proved a source of vexation for hi...

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace an ...

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfat...

Star-watching: at night the stars of Alastor Cluster blaze in profusion. The atmosphere refracts the...

The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be rem...