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

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

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

What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

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

I become drunk as circumstances dictate.