Roger Zelazny
Roger Zelazny
Roger Joseph Zelaznywas an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber. He won the Nebula award three timesand the Hugo award six times, including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conradand then the novel Lord of Light...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 May 1937
CountryUnited States of America
gang home ladies mean obstacle rest
I sometimes think of us as a gang of mean little old ladies in a combination rest home and obstacle course.
want goes-on wanting-you
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
atman followers said
His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god.
wall enemy important
The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.
success doors want
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
illusion
The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.
limits
Death is the only limit to the road you travel.
cousin thinking beast
I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
mirrors wish shows
...even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
friendship
Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.
battle lasts next
You are a fool to speak of last great battles ... for the last great battle is always the next one.
struggle book thinking
I worked out a book which I thought was just straight science fiction -- with everything pretty much explained, and suddenly I got an idea which I thought was kind of neat for working in a mythological angle. I'm really struggling with myself. It would probably be a better book if I include it, but on the other hand I don't always like to keep reverting to it. I think what I'm going to do is vary my output, do some straight science fiction and some straight fantasy that doesn't involve mythology, and composites.
pneumonia years two
Nick swore he'd die with this boots on, on some exotic safari, but he found his Kilimanjaro in a hospital on Earth, where they'd cured everything that was bothering him, except for the galloping pneumonia he'd picked up in the hospital. That had been, roughly, two hundred and fifty years ago. I'd been a pallbearer.
time difficult i-have-learned
The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.