I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
Since we are not permitted to act, we are obliged to know.
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
I become drunk as circumstances dictate.
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.