“You believe, in one of your theories, that we're in control of the world. We aren't. But we have been, and we will be whenever we wish. It's a day you will fear to see, that we come fully awake… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Aye, a man’d be a fool to lose his head twice over the same thing,” Thomas mused, still looking more than half stubborn. “Of course I’ll sign.” “He’d have to feel himself a little better than those around him to take up a challenge like that,” Foreman put in hurriedly as Thomas had already touched magnetic stylus to the form.… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“The Goths had trained bears and possibly, from one garbled account, trained seals. The dance is something with no survival, lacking verbal or pictorial… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Olympius, in the name of the Emperor Honorius, ordered the forces in Bologna to take the field against Alaric, on peril of the death… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Alaric now at this moment of supreme crisis, coming down to the rough shore and seeing the howling waves, raised his hand to heaven… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Paul was coursing at fantastic speed towards the area where the little twin stars Rhium and Antirhium revolved around each other. “Hurry,” were his instructions; “they seem of no consequence, but they are the governor of the universe. Somebody is tampering with them.” Paul continued at his impossible speed and arrived at the area. He saw something that nobody had… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“Science Fiction is a collection of guerrilla bands each challenging the rights of the others to belong to the centrality. The band most challenged… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“I say no man ever before slew his friend mouthful of words.” “And I say it has happened many times before. Consider the Assassinations, Thomas, you who are something of a critic of historical theses. Consider whether the Heroes have not more often been assassinated by friends than by enemies; consider whether some of them have not even been assassinated… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share
“I finally saw the whole conspiracy standing as plain as an elephant in the street; also the conspiracy was admitted to me in great… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“But we are all Goths, for all that, whoever we are; which is to say, Outlanders. And like the Goth Sarus we still owe… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Here we come to a semantic difficulty. Other peoples who were of considerable civilization had been referred to as barbarians for more than a… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“The Western Empire, supported generation after generation by half a hundred of the strongest and most remarkable men in history, from Stilicho to Charlemagne,… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
“Dr. Ginochio Gyves would have been the first man on the moon except for a trifling error of navigation. He lands. He sees a… — R.A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
