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?

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

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.