Fritz Leiber Quotes

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

There are vampires and vampires, and not all of them suck blood.

What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.

The gods spend the wealth the universe gathers, they scan the wonders and fling them to nothingness. That's why they're the gods! I told you they were devils.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

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

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis.

Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

What matters is that life is good. It has a lovely texture, like some rich cloth or fur, or the petals of flowers, and everything else worthwhile. And that's as true for the last man as the first.

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.