Jack Vance Quotes

Good music always defeats bad luck.

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

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

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

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

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

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.

Le persone che vivevano in massa, pensò Shorn, erano come ciottoli su di una spiaggia: ciascuna levigava il suo vicino, fino a quando tutte erano assolutamente uniformi.