Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

- Jack Vance

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

- Jack Vance

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

- Jack Vance

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportuni…

- Jack Vance

The less a writer discusses his work and himself the better. The master chef slaughters no chickens in the dining room; the doctor writes prescriptio…

- Jack Vance

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

- Jack Vance

Good music always defeats bad luck

- Jack Vance

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 wa…

- Jack Vance

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

- Jack Vance