Roger Zelazny Quotes

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.

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

Love is a negative form of hatred.

Good-bye and hello, as always.

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

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.

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

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 passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

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

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

Death is the only limit to the road you travel.

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.

Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.

The dead are too much with us.

There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.

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

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.

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.

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.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

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

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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