Quotes by : Jack Vance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

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