60 Quotes by Fritz Leiber

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

If guilt’s a luxury, then I’m a plutocrat.

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.

But at the same time, I swore an oath by the morning star to avenge the deaths of Vilis and Hinerio. And some day I shall! With proper plans and help and a new cover. More than one high potentate of the Thieves’ Guild will learn how it feels to have his weasand narrowed a fingerclip’s breadth at a time, aye, and worse things!

At that instant the hag’s noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites – milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips.

Then he turned and headed straight for home, but he took the long way, around the world.

From all around came very faintly a low sad hum, as the unhoused bees mourned.

A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.

That is the trouble with a clear mind. For a little while you see things as they really are and you can accurately predict how they’re going to shape the future... and then suddenly you realize you’ve predicted yourself a week or a month into the future and you can’t live the intervening time any more because you’ve already imagined it in detail.