Quotes by : Jack Vance

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

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

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

Good music always defeats bad luck.

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

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

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

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

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

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own....