Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I was never trained for anything.

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts..

Common sense is the genius of mankind..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it..

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all..

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss.