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?
Fritz LeiberWe're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.
Fritz LeiberDevils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.
Fritz LeiberEveryone 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 Leiber