“The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning… — 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
