I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.

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.

I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.

Truth" is contained in the preconceptions of him who seeks to define it. Any organization of ideas whatever presupposes a judgment on the world.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.