But now the priests think only one thing. How to hold on to their power as long as mankind lasts—until the sun darkens and the earth freezes! - Fritz Leiber

Girls had a way of blotting out all lesser, but not thereby despicable, delights. Girls were for dessert.

“What’s the use of knowing the name of a skull? One would never have occasion to talk of it,” said the fat thief loudly. “What interests me is that it has rubies for eyes.”

What is idealism? It is distortion. A giving of false values to things which in reality do not possess those values. Personalities differ chiefly in their pattern of values. When the values are largely false, the personality is unstable.