# Quote — Jack Vance, Emphyrio

> Ghyl laughed also. “If I'm too serious, you're too irresponsible.”
>
> “Bah,” retorted Floriel. “Is the world responsible? Of course not! The world is random, vagrant, heedless. To be responsible is to be out of phase, to be insane!”
>
> Ghyl pondered a moment. “This is perhaps the case, in a world left to itself. But society imposes order. Living in a society, it is not insane to be responsible.”

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [Emphyrio](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/emphyrio.md)
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