People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context.
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...
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
Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A gooddeath is better than a poor one.
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...
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...
There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.
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 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...
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...
They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.
The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
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...
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...
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!
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...
Elric offered Moonglum a smile that had gratitude in it. You are—a good friend—I wonder why . . .
But I tell you this, Sepiriz—given the opportunity I shall make that god rue his homecoming, for he has done the one thing that can move me to real anger. And the anger of Elric of Melniboné and his s...
They are a most depressed and depressing group, for they are all, you see, exiles or refugees or travelers between the worlds who lost their way and never found it again. No-one lives in Ameeron by ch...
Unsettled by the sudden appearance of Captain Quire within her court, Gloriana resolved to forego all frivolous entertainments and shun the more unnecessary pleasures. Yet, the queen reasoned, this su...