Roger Zelazny quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Roger Zelazny

Roger Zelazny Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Roger Zelazny on Wise Famous Quotes.

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

Only friends steal books.

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

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

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

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

In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay ...

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

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

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

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

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

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

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

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

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

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

Nothing is cheaper than past glories.

Death is the only limit to the road you travel.

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

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

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.

Good-bye and hello, as always.

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

Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.

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

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

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

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

...And call me Conrad!

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

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

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

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

The dead are too much with us.

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

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

Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma ...
They sat in the Hall of Mirrors.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.

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.

Nobody steals books but your friends.

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

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

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

I have always found that hell is other people.

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

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

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

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

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

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

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.

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

Then the fit hit the Shan.

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

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

I'm a lost soul. We do wail.

Love is a negative form of hatred.