The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“You are young; you have hopes. One by one they will go, and nothing will be left but the bare fact of… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“T’sain shrugged. “I have lived little, and I am not wise. Yet I know that everyone is entitled to life.” — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“Living creatures, if nothing else, have the right to life. It is their only truly precious possession, and the stealing of life… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“Death is the heritage of life; a man’s vitality is like air in a bladder. Poinct this bubble and away, away, away,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
