And Ningauble began to sort out in his mind the details of…

“The “Howard” in the entry had to be Howard Phillips Lovecraft , that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but undeniable loathing…

— Fritz Leiber

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

— Fritz Leiber

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

— Fritz Leiber

Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all…

— Fritz Leiber

“Certainly we’ve made important innovations, chief among them the systematic use of the scientific method,” he said at one point, “but the primitive groundwork…

— Fritz Leiber

“Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when she took dictation. Just this morning he…

— Fritz Leiber

“Of course it had been an hallucination. But when hallucinations start behaving like realities, with a score of coincidences to back them up, even…

— Fritz Leiber

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

— Fritz Leiber

“The Mouser made a very small parry in carte so that the thrust of the bravo from the east went past his left side…

— Fritz Leiber

“It had all begun on the elevated. There was a particular little sea of roots he had grown into the habit of glancing at…

— Fritz Leiber

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

— Fritz Leiber

“Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt…

— Fritz Leiber

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of…

— Fritz Leiber

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening…

— Fritz Leiber

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

— Fritz Leiber