Jack
beauty eye love-is
Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.
party balance realizing
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.
erotic admiration function
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
citing ends seems
I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.
blank-mind mouths shapes
The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.
stories environment reader
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
spiritual suffering rage
I suffer from a spiritual malaise which manifests itself in outbursts of vicious rage.
carpenter
As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
stars war tickets
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
science sake fiction
But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
science fiction science-fiction
I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
movie enormous checks
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
wild-imagination imagination wonderful
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.
inches miles ten
An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.