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

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

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

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.

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.

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