Women have power over men almost as great as gods do. - Fritz Leiber

Beside me, traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

He knew that ahead lay many perils—threats to his bodily welfare. And recently Jarles had come to have a great respect for that bag of flesh and bones which contained his ego.

What have I always told you about Soldiers? The bigger the gripe, the smaller the cause! It is infallible!