Quote

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

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
Art
Else
Displace
Nothing
Metaphors
Thinking
Engaging
Metaphor
Liberal
Arts
Provide

More quotes by Roger Zelazny

Image
I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being? Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.
Roger Zelazny
Image
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
Roger Zelazny
Image
The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Do you work for the government, any government?” I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.
Roger Zelazny
Image
The most difficult thing about Time, I have learned, is doing it.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.
Roger Zelazny
Image
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
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
Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
Roger Zelazny
Image
Go and copulate with yon purple lizard.
Roger Zelazny
Image
A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.
Roger Zelazny
Image
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
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
At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.
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
I'm a lost soul. We do wail.
Roger Zelazny