When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

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

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

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.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

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