I think all modern cities, especially the crass, newly built, highly industrial ones, should have ghosts. They are a civilizing influence. - Fritz Leiber

Laymen always accuse actors of acting. Because we can portray genuine emotion, we're supposed to be unable to feel it. It's the oldest charge made against us.

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

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.