For that matter, where did I get off being critical of anyone? - Fritz Leiber

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

Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all.

“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.”