I never worked in an office in my life.

This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit or multiplex, but always of a crystalline serenity.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

I'd never been published when I was young.

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

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.