Roger Zelazny

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

— Roger Zelazny

“Between you and me, the words, like mortar, separating, holding together those pieces of the structure ourselves. To say them, to cast…

— Roger Zelazny

“Dress Blacks mag-bind down the sides, leaving a smooth front whereon is displayed a green-blue-gray-white Earth insignia, about three inches in diameter,…

— Roger Zelazny

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

— Roger Zelazny

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

— Roger Zelazny

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of…

— Roger Zelazny

“Ali čovek zaboravlja stvarnost i pamti samo reci. Što je reči više upamtio, to ga pametnijim smatrajunjegovi drugovi. On gleda velike transformacije…

— Roger Zelazny

“Collins and Morales represent a segment of society which, if attacked with the weapons society sanctions, one finds buffered by innumerable layers…

— Roger Zelazny

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

— Roger Zelazny

“First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common…

— Roger Zelazny

“The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and…

— Roger Zelazny

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. 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

“He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as…

— Roger Zelazny

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

— Roger Zelazny

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?" "Because the world has need of your…

— Roger Zelazny

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

— Roger Zelazny

“When I said I wanted to die in my sleep, I meant I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while…

— Roger Zelazny

“They are doodlehums." "Doodlehums?" "Antisocial individuals, intentional circumventors of statutes." "Oh, hoodlums. Yes I guessed that much on my own. What can…

— Roger Zelazny

“Wishes, wishes. Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true”

— Roger Zelazny

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind,…

— Roger Zelazny

“You are one of the few successful persons I know." "Me? Why?" "You know precisely what you are doing and you do…

— Roger Zelazny

“Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out…

— Roger Zelazny

“As I sailed into Shadow, a white bird of my desire came and sat upon my right shoulder, and I wrote a…

— 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