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?
Chapter 11 (p. 116) |
Everyone knows Newton as the great scientist. Few remember that he spent half his life muddling with alchemy , looking for the philosopher's stone. That was the pebble by the seashore he really wanted to find.
Fritz LeiberA scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.
Fritz Leiber' Things are different from what I thought. They’re much worse.
Fritz LeiberI abominate any organization that denies cats are people !
Fritz LeiberIt was always worth everything to get away by himself, climb a bit, and study the heavens.
Fritz LeiberThere was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky.
Fritz LeiberDevils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.
Fritz LeiberThere was an omnipresent sense of crisis.
Fritz LeiberThe greater the variety of intelligent life Don saw, the more he became sensitive to its presence.
Fritz LeiberPaul stared out at the randomly scattered, lonely stars and wondered why he had always so easily accepted that they represented order.
Fritz LeiberWhat do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself’s the beginning of all love.
Fritz Leiber