There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

I never worked in an office in my life.

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

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

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