“There are two sides to every woman.” It might have been a mummy dispensing elder wisdom. “One is rational, like a man. The other knows. Men are artificially isolated creatures like islands in a sea of magic, protected by their… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself. — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
