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

Humans aren’t as you idealized them, Blanda. Humans are dream-killers. They took the bubbles out of soapsuds, Blanda, and called it detergent. They took the moonlight out of romance and called it sex.

The Devourers want to brood about their great service to the many universes—it is their claim that servile customers make the most obedient subjects for the gods.

He had the dim realization that the universe, like a huge sleepy animal, knew what he was trying to do and was trying to thwart him. This feeling of opposition made him determined to outmaneuver the universe—not the first guy to yield to such a temptation, of course.