Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.

There are true unseen forces, but not nearly so many as we believe, nor would they rule us so sternly if we did not admit them to our souls. We would not be assailed half so often by devils, had we not taken the trouble to invent so many of them.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Who could not return from a visit to Jack Vance's world, without feeling that he had been somewhere unique, that he had experienced things unavailable in our mundane world?