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, nar… - Fritz Leiber

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence — liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.

“You’ve got to believe there’s some sort of sense in everything that crazies say.”
“Crazies?”
“All of us.”

“Armon Jarles, there is only the cosmos and the electronic entities that constitute it, without soul or purpose, save so far as neuronic minds impose purpose upon it.
“Armon Jarles, the Hierarchy embodies the highest form of such purpose.
“Armon Jarles, the supernatural and the idealized have one trait in common. They are not. There is only reality.”