In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

Good music always defeats bad luck

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

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, and let him enjoy it.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.