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

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

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

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

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

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.