it is because I am a man who occasionally aspires to…

“I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted,…

— Roger Zelazny

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

— Roger Zelazny

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

— Roger Zelazny

“Time, too, is a function of Shadow, and even Dworkin did not know all of its ins and outs. Or perhaps he did. Maybe…

— Roger Zelazny

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by…

— Roger Zelazny

“And again, damn. Of troubles I considered myself amply possessed. But those who have do seem to get. Some spiritual form of compound interest,…

— Roger Zelazny

“Far below, the ocean was a bluegray rug being pulled out from beneath us.”

— Roger Zelazny

A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

— Roger Zelazny

The function of criticism should not be confused with the function of reform.

— Roger Zelazny

I always wanted to write, ever since I was a kid. I started writing at the age of 11. All I wanted to do…

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Roger Zelazny

“That was the first time in my life that I knew the meaning of despair. I read, I worked, I drank, I whored, but…

— Roger Zelazny

“I watched until the sizzlecloud drew its legs up into itself, hung like a burning cocoon, then died like an ember retreating into ash.…

— Roger Zelazny

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally…

— Roger Zelazny

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge…

— Roger Zelazny