Fredric Brown

"I sought her in the grayness and she wasn’t there, she was dead and she wasn’t there, she wouldn’t be there ever again and I could never find comfort in her again. Ellen, beloved, you are dead and you…"

"He knew that soon, perhaps even today, something important was going to happen. Whether good or bad he did not know, but he darkly suspected. And with reason: there are few good things that may unexpe…"

"“Nuts,” said the Martian. “You people got rocks in your heads, that’s what accounts for your superstitions."

"Escape, God how we all need escape from this tiny here. The need for it has motivated just about everything man has ever done in any direction other than that of the satisfaction of his physical appet…"

"Yes, it was swell to sleep when you were looking forward to something. Time flies by and you don’t even hear the rustle of its wings."

"Paranoia is a form of insanity which, Dr. Randoph told me, hasn’t any physical symptoms. It’s just a delusion supported by a systematic framework of rationalization. A paranoiac can be sane in every w…"

"A lot of my childhood playmates ended up behind bars and I don’t mean as bartenders."

"It was not the fashion for politicians who aspired to elective office to live ostentatiously, no matter how much money they had. If they loved luxury—and most of them did—they indulged that love in wa…"