Fritz Leiber Quotes

It’s this mucking inefficiency and death of the cosmos — and don’t tell me that isn’t in the cards! — masquerading as benign omniscient authority.

For that matter, where did I get off being critical of anyone?

Their feeble attempts to appear concerned only made them look to him more like two fat cats full of stolen cream and with a map of the secret tunnel leading to the meat locker tucked inside their fur vests.

Know it or not, man treads between abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.

"Excuse me, Gaspard,” Flaxman interjected, “but would you mind turning the emotional down and the factual up?”

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.

“Oaths are made to be kept only until their purpose be fulfilled,” the fluty voice responded. “Every geas is lifted at last, every self-set rule repealed. Otherwise orderliness in life becomes a limitation to growth; discipline, chains; integrity, bondage and evil-doing.”

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That’s why they’re the gods! I told you they were devils.

When one achieves revenge, the innocent perforce suffer.

Great conquerors live on as their enemies’ devils.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

That’s what everybody’s been looking for since the Year One—something a little more than sex.

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one.