Fritz Leiber Quotes

Too much good luck was always dangerous.

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past’s mistakes and the future’s fears.

Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.

Two things will last to the end of time, at least for the tribes of Western Man, no matter how far his spaceships rove. They are sorcery and romantic love, which come to much the same thing in the end.

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

Afterward loses too many battles to Too Late.

Every human being believes he is perfect in his way, even the most miserable scoundrel or dreamer.

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

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.

“You are not the first to be shocked and horrified by chess,” he assured her. “It is a curse of the intellect. It is a game for lunatics—or else it creates them.”

Beside me, 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 big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

With a happy roaring shout only he could hear, blood rushed through the Mouser’s arteries toward his center, reviving his limp manhood in a mere moment, as a magically summoned genie offhandedly builds a tower.

Pulg, alongside his pink streak of sentimentality, had recently taken to sporting a gray one of superstition.

Now it may be that in the world of Newhon there are gods of whom even Death does not know and who from time to time take pleasure in putting obstacles in his path. Or it may be that Chance is quite as great a power as Necessity.