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  • Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

    Roger Zelazny (2000). “The Hand of Oberon”, G K Hall & Company
  • 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.

  • 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 (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks
  • Love is a negative form of hatred.

    Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.78, ibooks
  • Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

    Roger Zelazny (1992). “Prince of Chaos”
  • The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

    "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.
  • I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

    "The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber".
  • The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.

    Roger Zelazny (2016). “The Dream Master”, p.40, ibooks
  • I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

    Roger Zelazny (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”
  • Nobody steals books but your friends.

    "The Guns of Avalon". Book by Roger Zelazny (p. 196), 1972.
  • After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

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    "Phlogiston Forty Four: An Interview with Roger Zelazny". Interview by Alex Heatley, Phlogiston Forty Four, 1995.
  • Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

    Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks
  • The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

    Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.78, ibooks
  • Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

  • 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.

  • 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 (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”
  • 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 is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.

    "The Guns of Avalon". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1972.
  • Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind.

    Roger Zelazny (2009). “Threshold”, Nesfa Press
  • Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

    "Blood of Amber". Book by Roger Zelazny, Chapter 2 (p. 24), 1986.
  • When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

    "Trumps of Doom (The Second Chronicles of Amber, Book 1)". Book by Roger Zelazny (Chapter 6, p. 108), May 1985.
  • I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

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    Roger Zelazny (2001). “Prince of Chaos”, G K Hall & Company
  • That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

    "The Chronicles of Amber: Knight of Shadows". Book by Roger Zelazny, Chapter 3 (p. 63), 1989.
  • The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

    Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.85, ibooks
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

    Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks
  • Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

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  • Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

    Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.169, ibooks
  • 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.

    "The Guns of Avalon". Book by Roger Zelazny, Chapter 6, p. 136, 1972.
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