# Quote — Jack Vance, The Face

> “What are you doing here?”
>
> “I’m looking at you, and grateful for the opportunity.”

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [The Face](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face.md)
- Page: 124
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#The_Face_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/what-are-you

## More from this book

> For many years my nerves were like electric wires. Then I discovered the first axiom of human accord: I accept each person on his own terms. I keep a close tongue in my head; I offer opinions only when so solicited. What a remarkable change! Dissension vanishes, novel facts emerge, digestion flows like a wide river.

p. 75 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/for-many-years.md)

> The seconds marched past, traversing that mysterious boundary which separates future from past.

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/the-seconds-marched.md)

> My own concepts in this regard are easy and clear, and I am sure that the word “simplistic” will be used by my critics. These folk are callow and turgid of intellect; I am reassured by their howls and yelps.

p. 172 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/the-face/my-own-concepts.md)