Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find. — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours. — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
