Jack Vance Quotes

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

All we ask is to be let alone.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

Artie is going to do what ever Artie wants to do.

To be adult is to be alone.

Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

When I'm out there, it's just me. Nobody's controlling me, and I can do whatever I want to do. I'm my own man.

But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.

I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

I chose my own path because that was the only way.

Once I turned eighteen, I could cut myself off from everyone and finally get what I wanted, which was to be on my own, once and for all. ~Ruby, pg 38

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

Solitude is independence.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.

I don't live on other people's terms.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.