Jack Vance

“You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of life.”

“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 t...”

“You’re so quiet and subdued! You worry me. Are you well?” “Quite well. Deflated, perhaps. I have been deserted by my enemies. The affair is over. I am done.”

“First coming aboard, a new arrival makes a cautious survey of the crew, trying to winnow the affable and good-natured from the surly and truculent. Some of the crewmen will seem easygoing, h...”

“Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.”

“Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess,...”

“The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. T...”

“These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.”