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

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

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

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?

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live. I’ll keep that in mind. I’ll be of good cheer.