Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

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

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

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 thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.