Fritz Leiber

Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the…

— Fritz Leiber

“Oaths are made to be kept only until their purpose be fulfilled," the fluty voice responded. "Every geas is lifted at last,…

— Fritz Leiber

“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups…

— Fritz Leiber

“I'll never stop writing. It's one occupation in which being crazy, even senile, might help.”

— Fritz Leiber

“There are laws of hate in the universe, shaping even its loves, and it is time I made them work for me.”

— Fritz Leiber

Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

— Fritz Leiber

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

— Fritz Leiber

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

— Fritz Leiber

“I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?”

— Fritz Leiber

“None can use black magic without straining the soul to the uttermost—and staining it into the bargain. None can inflict suffering without…

— Fritz Leiber

We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches…

— Fritz Leiber

“But it wasn’t to Gun I was giving the rectal Thorazine,” Saul amended. “—that would have been just too romantic—”

— Fritz Leiber

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted…

— Fritz Leiber

“Do you think the saucer actually had an inertialess drive—like E. E. Smith's bergenholms or something?” Harry McHeath asked Doc.  “Have to,…

— Fritz Leiber

What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because…

— Fritz Leiber

“There are two sides to every woman.” It might have been a mummy dispensing elder wisdom. “One is rational, like a man.…

— Fritz Leiber

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where…

— Fritz Leiber

“No somos duques porque no tenemos dueño.”

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“Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee." Again the…

— Fritz Leiber

There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

— Fritz Leiber

What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people…

— Fritz Leiber

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking,…

— Fritz Leiber

“The Mouser sighed. The moment had come, he knew, as it always did, when outward circumstances and inner urges commanded an act,…

— Fritz Leiber

“Fafhrd, his back to a great oak, had his broadsword out and was holding off two of Rannarsh's henchmen, who were attacking…

— Fritz Leiber

“The seven black priests—" Fafhrd muttered. "The six," the Mouser corrected. "We killed one of them last night." "Well, the six then,"…

— Fritz Leiber