Roger Zelazny Quotes

Cute," she said, smiling. "If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

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

The power to hurt," he said, snapping on a lapel microphone and activating his recorder, "has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement."

I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.

I'm a lost soul. We do wail.

Do not preach to me of progress. Change is not desirable for its own sake, but only if it offers improvement.

"And your oath? To right wrongs, to punish the wicked…?"
"The longer I lived the more difficult it became to determine what was a wrong and who was wicked. Make it clear to me again and I may go back into business."

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.

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

Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.

Oh, cynical monger of indulgences! ’Twould take a man of the cloth to work a scheme like that!

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

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

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

Well, I decided that as a teenager that I really didn't know enough to describe character well and I was wasting my time. I'd learned as much as I could about story telling techniques and it wasn't a matter of technique any more. It was a matter of substance. As a result I said I was going to wait until I was a lot older and had more experience. So it was that after I got out of college I'd been away from SF for about four years. I'd read SF steadily from when I was eleven until I started college. When I started college I said, "I'm not going to read that while I'm here, I'm going to learn poetry and other things of that sort" in fact I wrote a lot of poetry then.