Quotes About Jack Vance

I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.

There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

It is an unthinkable discrepancy that fifty-four men should consume the food intended for fifty-three.

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.

But what a pity; I have business to transact with Lugo Teehalt!" "It is pointless then to approach me.

To Smade's Tavern in the July of 1524 came Kirth Gersen, representing himself as a locater.

From Life, Volume I, by Unspiek, Baron

Masensen looked in anguish to right, left, up at the ceiling. "A man," he said, "at the Grand Pomador Hotel. His name — Spock.

Conditions at Flutic are always optimum and at worst meticulous.

Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.