Roger Zelazny Quotes

Grief and anger shrink my world, and I resent this. They seem to paralyze my memory of happier times...

Years have passed, I suppose. I'm not really counting them anymore. But I think of this thing often:...

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a...

If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...

I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of th...

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

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

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

Nobody steals books but your friends.

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care...

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

In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness...

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the i...

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to d...

You are one of the few successful persons I know.""Me? Why?""You know precisely what you are doing a...

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetical...

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

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts bracket...

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny an...

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

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

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

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

You were correct, for all men have within them both that which is dark and that which is light. A ma...

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

If it will give you any satisfaction in the end, I still care for you. Either there is no such thing...

Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would ...

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one ...

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

He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admir...

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your hu...

Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?" asked Tak."Yes—and no," said Yama, "If by 'demon' ...

First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serv...

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode togethe...

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minu...

Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government,...

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

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

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

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do ...

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

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

Good-bye and hello, as always.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...

Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanct...

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

It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he nea...

I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a ...

In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an e...

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the l...

Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smok...

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

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

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.