Quotes from Roger Zelazny

You ever kill yourself, Corwin?" "Not recently. How'd you manage it?

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

Tänan, ütlesin [Merlin]. Nüüd olen ma kõigeks valmis. Sa võid nii enesekindluse huvides väita, ütles Vialle, aga ära seda kunagi usu.

It seemed as if everyone I met knew me, and as if everyone were playing an elaborate double-game.

No mida kuradit! Lahing ei kuulu alati tugevatele ja võitma kipuvad meeldivad tüübid, sest just nemad kirjutavad pärast mälestusi.

I still thought you might be behind the whole thing. You or Brand. I had it narrowed down that far. I thought it might even be the two of you together-especially with him struggling to bring you back.

As or other occasions of rest after stress with more stress pending, sleep eluded me for a time.

You will have my old cell," I said. "No, the one next to it.

and 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.

Was that a dark figure ducking behind a windmill tree? Or only the dance of shadows in my shadow-shifting eyes?

The moment stretched beyond the point of action.

You have preserved your mystery. Rest in peace, if that be your will. I give you this withered rose I have borne through hell, casting it into the abyss. I leave you this rose and the twisted colors of the sky.

He has never been satisfied to be a mere spectator at anything. I'd take an oath he even plots in his sleep.

My father, and most of the others in Amber and the Courts, swear by the heavy, awkward things, but they are probably made of sterner stuff than myself.

You imported a master strategist, you'd better listen to what he has to say.

It would seem we have small chance but to be dutiful in the end.

By looking at his face, I could no more tell whether he was lying, in whole or in part, than I could learn by scrutinizing the Jack of, say, Diamonds.

I was tired of looking for sense where there wasn't any.

He was staring at me as he advanced, no special expression on that face so like my own.

I eschewed shortcuts, for flashy shadow spanning helluns also have their price and I did not want to be all whacked out when I arrived.

We were enough like Brand that I knew a particular species of fear nothing else could provoke.

Sorry about the horse," he said. "I was aiming at you.

Something big and batlike swooped through the tunnel of his lights and was gone. He ignored its passage. Five minutes later it made a second pass, this time much closer, and he fired a magnesium flare. A black shape, perhaps forty feet across, was illuminated, and he gave it two five-second bursts from the fifty-calibers. It fell to the ground and did not return again. To the squares, this was Damnation Alley. To Hell Tanner, this was still the parking lot.

No sense in looking for our differences when I had just met him.