I know only too well from a personal experience that is number one on my list of things to be forgotten. - Fritz Leiber

The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but—doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things—they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.

The worst thing about mountain climbing is that the easy parts go so quickly.

Revenge is empty. It cannot bring back the dead.