Jack Vance Quotes
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I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
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He’s like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
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Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?
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They call me a renegade.The epithet is inaccurate and undeserved. I cannot be faithless to a cause which I never have endorsed. Indeed, I am absolutely faithful to the only cause I espouse, which is my own welfare. I take pride in this unswerving loyalty!
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The purportedly free was seldom as represented.
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
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The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
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'At Gundar we conceive 'innocence' as a positive quality, not merely an insipid absence of guilt,' stated the Nolde. 'We are not the fools that certain untidy ruffians might suppose.'
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He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.
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The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.
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'We are supposed to set you a good example,' said Devonet. 'As a start, I will point out that a lady of refinement would not wish to be found so high in a tree.''Then I am a lady of refinement well and truly,' said Madouc, 'since I did not wish to be found.'
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His brain ached with the want of knowing.
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He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.
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'Sir Tristano spoke: 'Stop! You are taking the great green pearl!''Naturally!' said the voice from a point close behind. 'That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim’s valuables!'
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.