If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. Roger Zelazny More Quotes by Roger Zelazny More Quotes From Roger Zelazny Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette. Roger Zelazny hell light doe 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 philosophical smoking writing You are a fool to speak of last great battles...for the last great battle is always the next one. Roger Zelazny next lasts battle Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes. Roger Zelazny government pay mean I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things. Roger Zelazny good-night sweet hands An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding. Roger Zelazny army men years I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian. Roger Zelazny mad crazy dying 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. Roger Zelazny saint sight men Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all. Roger Zelazny lancelot brother bears When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. Roger Zelazny wombats company dies It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. Roger Zelazny waiting-around pain trying 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 soul honor kindness Once a Buddha, always a Buddha. Roger Zelazny buddhism The dead are too much with us. Roger Zelazny too-much death Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!” “You burn prettily,” I said. Roger Zelazny agony tonight play Go and copulate with yon purple lizard. Roger Zelazny lizards purple I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted. Roger Zelazny arrogant important mean 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. Roger Zelazny agents writing years I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly. Roger Zelazny beast cousin thinking 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. Roger Zelazny angel stars eye
