The more brilliant the enchanted male, the stupider the enchanting female. - Fritz Leiber

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

Every human being believes he is perfect in his way, even the most miserable scoundrel or dreamer.

And just think what rare delights—nay, what whole sets of ecstasies and blisses—this much gold would buy. How fortunate that metal was mindless slave of the man who held it!