People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context.
I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience.
Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A gooddeath is better than a poor one.
There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.
He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The
Be warned, gentlemen. I possess a revolver and am an expert shot!Holmes accepted this news gravely and informed the man that while he understood that an exchange of pistol fire to be something in the...
Then Lu Wing entered, no longer in chauffeur’s uniform but wearing a high-buttoned, deep blue silk tunic, an entourage of smooth, modern men of south China at his heels, ready, I heard him say, to do...
The last Melnibonean thinks of his people's history and legends, and he tells his human friends some of what he knows and one day a human scribe will write these remembered words which will become in...
Law and Chaos? I said. They're not the same as good and evil, I'm told.Merciful heavens, no! Not at all. Not at all. Evil is a cruel and selfish thing. Chaos can be wild and generous, and just as some...
IT IS THE colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody, and from...
Elric offered Moonglum a smile that had gratitude in it. You are—a good friend—I wonder why . . .
Because the Eternal Champion sequence contains comedies does not mean that I am satirising those stories which are tragic and romantic. We're diverse creatures and for me the Eternal Champion must ref...
They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.
The miserable frequently believe that possession of power for its own sake is what has made others more content. They grab such power in many different ways and remain baffled as to why they are just...
On such ventures as these one isinclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream.
A moment later, the world's first all-purpose human being strode eastward, whistling.'A tasty world,' it reflected cheerfully. 'A very tasty world.''You said it, Cornelius!
. . and then, from that dungeon in the West,There rises up a melody, beguiling and forlorn.It is the sweet, sad, self-deceiving murderer's song,And it will not end 'til morn . . .'-- Wheldrake, The Pr...
Then the earth grew old, its landscapes mellowing and showing signs of age, its ways becoming whimsical and strange in the manner of a man in his last years...
She had always been beautiful in his eyes, and admirable, too. He had worshipped her, in some ways, for her courage in adversity, for her resistance to the ways of his own world. But that had been bra...
Our Di had, according to her myth, been hounded to death by the baying werewolves of the yellow press. Of course it was now plain I was one. Maybe even the worst of them. Some people claimed they had...