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If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book. — Roger Zelazny

Only friends steal books. — Roger Zelazny

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway. — Roger Zelazny

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform. — Roger Zelazny

It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart - never the sensation of the moment. — Roger Zelazny

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck. — Roger Zelazny

In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay ... — Roger Zelazny

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. — Roger Zelazny

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. — Roger Zelazny

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. — Roger Zelazny

While sex heads a great number of lists, we all have other things we like to do in between. — Roger Zelazny

I loved him like a brother - which is to say, not at all. — Roger Zelazny

We fought.'
'A duel?'
'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it. — Roger Zelazny

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom. — Roger Zelazny

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly. — Roger Zelazny

The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it. — Roger Zelazny

We talked the moon out of heavens before either of us grew tired. — Roger Zelazny

Death is the only limit to the road you travel. — Roger Zelazny

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself. — Roger Zelazny

P.S. I still dunno if it's art. Go to Hell yourself. — Roger Zelazny

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself. — Roger Zelazny

Good-bye and hello, as always. — Roger Zelazny

And sweets to the sweet, I replied, then spoke the word that completed the spell, dropping a load of manure upon him. — Roger Zelazny

Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth. — Roger Zelazny

Wishes, wishes.
Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true — Roger Zelazny

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement. — Roger Zelazny

I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences. — Roger Zelazny

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert. — Roger Zelazny

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot
with your whole heart. — Roger Zelazny

Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see. — Roger Zelazny

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one. — Roger Zelazny

Hell, we make our own ifs. I had better things to think about than what could have happened — Roger Zelazny

If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there can't be a meeting of minds. — Roger Zelazny

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all. — Roger Zelazny

At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time. — Roger Zelazny

One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you. — Roger Zelazny

The dead are too much with us. — Roger Zelazny

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian. — Roger Zelazny

Time, too, is a function of Shadow, and even Dworkin did not know all of its ins and outs. Or perhaps he did. Maybe that is what drove him mad. — Roger Zelazny

Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals. — Roger Zelazny

I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar. — Roger Zelazny

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. — Roger Zelazny

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game. — Roger Zelazny

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write. — Roger Zelazny

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to. — Roger Zelazny

Nobody steals books but your friends. — Roger Zelazny

Ill met by moonlight,' said Deirdre.
'You could still be tied to a stake,' said Random, and she did not reply. — Roger Zelazny

When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. — Roger Zelazny

...And call me Conrad! — Roger Zelazny

Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma ...
They sat in the Hall of Mirrors. — Roger Zelazny

All roads lead to Amber, he said, as though it were an axiom. — Roger Zelazny

So I simply said one of the great trite truths: There is generally more than one side to a story. — Roger Zelazny

Before you are fully aware of anything else, you are aware whether you are awakening in your own bed. — Roger Zelazny

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things. — Roger Zelazny

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. — Roger Zelazny

We crossed a small but sturdy wooden bridge a little later, but no trolls were taking tolls. — Roger Zelazny

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today. — Roger Zelazny

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill. — Roger Zelazny

The headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse. — Roger Zelazny

What should I do?' Coyote yelled.
'Cultivate philosophy and run like hell,' said Bear ... — Roger Zelazny

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. — Roger Zelazny

The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant. — Roger Zelazny

Wheels turning, the motorcycle's roar grows steady, which, too, is a form of silence. — Roger Zelazny

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me. — Roger Zelazny

And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest, I suppose. — Roger Zelazny

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. — Roger Zelazny

You are a deviant from the social norm!"
"Is that an insult or a diagnosis? — Roger Zelazny

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. — Roger Zelazny

Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least. — Roger Zelazny

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own. — Roger Zelazny

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden. — Roger Zelazny

You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware. — Roger Zelazny

You are of that tribe with your feet in hell and your head in heaven. — Roger Zelazny

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar. — Roger Zelazny

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny

Do you work for the government, any government?"
"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes. — Roger Zelazny

I wonder as to the value of consciousness," said Jack, "if it does not change the nature of a beast. — Roger Zelazny

Trouble can be purchased cheaply, though the refund may be more than you can bear. — Roger Zelazny

Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. — Roger Zelazny

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha. — Roger Zelazny

While it shows the gods as no better than the rest of us," she said, "at least, it shows them as no worse. See here the sources of human morality. — Roger Zelazny

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard. — Roger Zelazny

Let there be an end to thought. Thus do I refute Descartes.' I sprawled, not a cogito or a sum to my name. — Roger Zelazny

I have always found that hell is other people. — Roger Zelazny

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call. — Roger Zelazny

If the liberal arts do nothing else, they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. — Roger Zelazny

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly. — Roger Zelazny

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette. — Roger Zelazny

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him. — Roger Zelazny

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. — Roger Zelazny

Of course it does not apply to me. I am the soul of honor, kindness, mercy and goodness. Trust me in all things. — Roger Zelazny

Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence. — Roger Zelazny

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality! — Carol Berg

Then the fit hit the Shan. — Roger Zelazny

A powerful flight of the imagination ... an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence. — Roger Zelazny

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend. — Roger Zelazny

I'm a lost soul. We do wail. — Roger Zelazny

Love is a negative form of hatred. — Roger Zelazny

Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad from worse. — Roger Zelazny