Quotes from zelazny roger iii

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."

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.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.

I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.