I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.
The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.
I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.