The death of an illusion tends to disconcert. Roger Zelazny More Quotes by Roger Zelazny More Quotes From Roger Zelazny When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot Roger Zelazny arrowsbrokenheart That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself. Roger Zelazny betraydont-trustbetrayed I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. Roger Zelazny destinygratefulstars I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation. Roger Zelazny conversationtalkingthinking If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace. Roger Zelazny metaphorartthinking I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip. Roger Zelazny designgreatnesswriting Nobody steals books but your friends. Roger Zelazny stealingbook At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time. Roger Zelazny clocksorrowspring Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time. Roger Zelazny dreamsleepmen Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. Roger Zelazny durationsleepneeds There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. Roger Zelazny civilizationmeanart One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas only come to me for short stories. With longer fiction, it is a character (or characters) coming to visit, and I am then obliged to collaborate with him/her/it/them in creating the story. Roger Zelazny writingcharacterideas Then 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. Roger Zelazny reconcilehurtfacts It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know. Roger Zelazny strongernicewould-be Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today. Roger Zelazny blackwhiteyesterday The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it. Roger Zelazny i-have-learneddifficulttime 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. Roger Zelazny wastecleverart The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also. Roger Zelazny monumentabsenceway 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. Roger Zelazny sleepwatersex There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway. Roger Zelazny good-doctorsmy-familydoctors
