Roger Zelazny

I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who…

— Roger Zelazny

“You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware.”

— Roger Zelazny

“It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking…

— Roger Zelazny

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age…

— Roger Zelazny

“Vishnu Vishnu Vishnu regarded regarded regarded Brahma Brahma Brahma... They sat in the Hall of Mirrors.”

— Roger Zelazny

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy…

— Roger Zelazny

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to…

— Roger Zelazny

“Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.”

— Roger Zelazny

Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments…

— Roger Zelazny

“I’m all right now,” I said, “but leave me alone. I’m going down to the river to bathe.” I took seven steps,…

— Roger Zelazny

“How can you treat death so lightly?" she asks. "Because it happens," he replies. "It is inevitable. I do not mourn the…

— Roger Zelazny

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I…

— Roger Zelazny

One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is…

— Roger Zelazny

“People never pay attention to weather reports; this, I believe, is a constant factor in man's psychological makeup, stemming probably from an…

— Roger Zelazny

I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot…

— Roger Zelazny

“The Keeper of Clouds has unpenned his charges. The Keeper of Winds has unlocked his gates. The Keeper of Waters has opened…

— Roger Zelazny

I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not--so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers…

— Roger Zelazny

“One of the disadvantages of traveling alone is that when you fall there is none to assist you.”

— Roger Zelazny

“things sort of equal to equal things sort of being equal to each other, it didn’t much seem to matter.”

— Roger Zelazny

“I have a better idea,' said she. 'Know that under a mortal name am I mistress of the Palace of Kama in…

— Roger Zelazny