Quotes by Roger Zelazny

About Roger Zelazny:

Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula award three times (out of 14 nominations) and the Hugo award six times (also out of 14 nominations), including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad (1965; subsequently published under the title This Immortal, 1966) and then the novel Lord of Light (1967).
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Good-bye and hello, as always.

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.

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A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness.  Conversely, if not fo...

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

Roger Zelazny

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

Roger Zelazny

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the ...

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

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Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanctions, one finds buffered by innumerable layers of law, bureaucracy, lies, evasions. They rest secure within their palaces, confident that they possess...

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

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Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught at it. This is not quite so bad as it sounds, as I am a decent, ...

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I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities ...

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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?

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You are one of the few successful persons I know." "Me? Why?" "You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well." "But I don't really do much of anything." "And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon you...

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

Roger Zelazny

Nobody steals books but your friends.

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

Roger Zelazny

I was not always that way, but perhaps the shadow Earth, where I spent so many years, mellowed me a bit, and maybe my hitch in the dungeons of Amber reminded me somewhat of the quality of human suffering. I do not know. I only know that I could not p...

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In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world...

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

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameRoger Zelazny
  • DescriptionAmerican speculative fiction writer
  • BornMay 13, 1937
  • DiedJune 14, 1995
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksLord Of Light; The Chronicles Of Amber; Isle Of The Dead; The Doors Of His Face, The Lamps Of His Mouth, And Other Stories; Doorways In The Sand; Eye Of Cat; Unicorn Variations; A Night In The Lonesome October
  • AwardsHugo Award; Nebula Award