I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call. » 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
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows. » 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
Nobody steals books but your friends. » Roger Zelazny
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill. » Roger Zelazny
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. » 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
Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects. » Roger Zelazny
But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies! » Roger Zelazny
There’s no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. » Roger Zelazny
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. » 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
There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway. » Roger Zelazny
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, “I wish I had known this some time ago. » Roger Zelazny
In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay… » Roger Zelazny
Good-bye and hello, as always. » Roger Zelazny
The death of an illusion tends to disconcert. » Roger Zelazny
..even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see. » Roger Zelazny
Personal feelings don’t make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals. » Roger Zelazny
I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. » 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
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
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love. » Roger Zelazny
There’s really nothing quite like someone’s wanting you dead to make you want to go on living. » 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
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden. » Roger Zelazny
When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly. » Roger Zelazny
Sleep is perhaps the only among life’s great pleasures which need not be of short duration. » Roger Zelazny
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.’ Sam held out his hand. “Give me some tobacco and a paper. » Roger Zelazny
…the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse. » Roger Zelazny
The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls. » 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
First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it. » Roger Zelazny
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. » Roger Zelazny
Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty. » Roger Zelazny
Love is a negative form of hatred. » 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
An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding. » Roger Zelazny
I wonder as to the value of consciousness,” said Jack, “if it does not change the nature of a beast. » Roger Zelazny
I’m a lost soul. We do wail. » Roger Zelazny
The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it. » Roger Zelazny
It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know. » 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
I’ve always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I’ve generally destroyed all basis for further conversation. » Roger Zelazny
If the liberal arts do nothing else, they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. » Roger Zelazny
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment. » 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
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
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They sat in the Hall of Mirrors. » Roger Zelazny
Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine? » Roger Zelazny