60 Quotes by Fritz Leiber

Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age’s vaunted ‘communications industry’ had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

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.

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

By the hedgehog,’ said the smaller, grinning wickedly, ’but they’ll think twice before they play at ambuscades again!

We have searched the wide world over and not found forgetfulness.

A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.