It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. Roger Zelazny More Quotes by Roger Zelazny More Quotes From Roger Zelazny There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway. Roger Zelazny good-doctors my-family doctors The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. Roger Zelazny universe justice men The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant. Roger Zelazny cold stars god-love I'm a lost soul. We do wail. Roger Zelazny lost-souls soul lost Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see. Roger Zelazny mirrors shows wish No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. Roger Zelazny buddhist men reality I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters. Roger Zelazny writing character mean 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. Roger Zelazny writing book years 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 sight mind two The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden. Roger Zelazny thighs maidens battle If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs. Roger Zelazny names long lying It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment. Roger Zelazny anticipation moments heart Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own. Roger Zelazny toothache vistas philosophical Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming. Roger Zelazny humility teaching sea Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine? Roger Zelazny routine past years I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice. Roger Zelazny brother sorry school My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. Roger Zelazny bones stories writing If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book. Roger Zelazny letters writing book 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. Roger Zelazny wine feet lying Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver." "Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion. Roger Zelazny names heart giving
