We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and … - Jack Vance

Guyal reined his horse and reflected that flowers were rarely cherished by persons of hostile disposition.

My brain, otherwise a sound instrument, has a serious defect—a hypertrophied lobe of curiosity.

If the study of human interactions could become a science, I suspect that an inviolate axiom might be discovered to this effect: Every social disposition creates a disparity of advantages. Further: Every innovation designed to correct the disparities, no matter how altruistic in concept, works only to create a new and different set of disparities.