Quote

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

Roger Zelazny

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Roger Zelazny
Age: 58 †
Born: 1937
Born: May 13
Died: 1995
Died: June 14
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Euclid
Ohio
Roger Joseph Zelazny
Roger Joseph Christopher Zelazny
Harrison Denmark
Anyway
Doctors
None
Family
Good
Cope

More quotes by Roger Zelazny

Image
The dead are too much with us.
Roger Zelazny
Image
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.
Roger Zelazny
Image
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.
Roger Zelazny
Image
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
Roger Zelazny
Image
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
Roger Zelazny
Image
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.
Roger Zelazny
Image
It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
Roger Zelazny
Image
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!” it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!” “You burn prettily,” I said.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Nobody steals books but your friends.
Roger Zelazny
Image
I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
Roger Zelazny
Image
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
Image
Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
Roger Zelazny
Image
There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.
Roger Zelazny
Image
When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.
Roger Zelazny
Image
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
Image
I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
Roger Zelazny
Image
I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
Roger Zelazny
Image
The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.
Roger Zelazny