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.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

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

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Good music always defeats bad luck