Quotes from Roger Zelazny

It's mainly the little things- all added up- that give us the final picture, that make the difference.

What an enormous chutzpah you possess, I told him. What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule? The fact that I was able to occupy the throne, he replied. Try and take it.

Then he sat down with his back against the door and ate his lunch. When he had finished, he threw the leaf wrappings over the edge and watched them fall, drifting from side to side on the air currents, until they were out of sight. He lit his pipe then and smoked.

Things pass, but the essence remains. You sit, therefore, in the midst of a dream.

Predosje?aji su se igrali lovice u dubinama moga uma, ali niti jedan od njih nije mi se svi?ao dovoljno da bih ga poveo na ru?ak.

Sometimes the mills of the gods grind too damned fast and we get buried in grist

What should I do?' Coyote yelled. 'Cultivate philosophy and run like hell,' said Bear...

As there is a time for everything, there is a time also for the end of anything. This is an age for the consolidation of man's gains upon this world. This is a time for the sharing of knowledge, not the crossing of blades.

It is the difference between the unknown and the unknowable, between science and fantasy - it is a matter of essence. 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.

My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one—there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best. . . .

I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing.

In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions.

What is the true father of a man? The circumstances which brought together the two bodies which begat him? Was it the fact that, for some reason, at one moment in time, these two pleased one another beyond any possible alternatives? If so, why? Was it the simple hunger of the flesh, or was it curiosity, or the will? Or was it something else? Pity? Loneliness? The desire to dominate? What feeling, or what thought was father to the body in which I first came into consciousness?

I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

Moving quickly now, shadow amid shadows. Slipping ghostlike through brush and bramble. My senses extend me beyond my skull. I am become a piece of the night.

I taste the darkness, I hear the song the moon sings.

In that place there is always snow upon the ground, and rainbows ride like fur on the backs of icicles, which sprout about the frozen caps of cliffs. The air is sharp as a sword. The sky is bright as the eye of a cat. Very

Stubama i dolje. Ni zvuka odozdo. Zna?i kasno je. Dobro. Još jedan dan, a još smo živi. Možda ?ak i malo mudriji. Dovoljno mudri da bismo shvatili da mnoge stvari još ne znamo. Doduše, imamo nadu.

Man is the sum total of everything he has done, wishes to do or not to do, and wishes he had done, or hadn't.

Good Morning. You're in trouble.

Then come to me in Bright Defile, he said, where Judgment Day is not a thing that can be delayed for overlong.

Life is sufficiently furnished that one need not go looking about for extra guilt.

I watched until the sizzlecloud drew its legs up into itself, hung like a burning cocoon, then died like an ember retreating into ash. Suddenly, it was very dark and there was only the rain. Sunday

Yes,' it announced then. 'You are the one.' 'The one what?' I said. 'The one I will accompany. You've no objection to a bird of ill omen following you, have you, Corwin?' It chuckled then, and executed a little dance.