J. Riley

“Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.”
― Leigh Brackett

“There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.”
― Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Girls without Pasts don't keep guns in their dressing rooms.”
― Leigh Brackett, No Good From a Corpse