Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

— Roger Zelazny

Nobody steals books but your friends.

— Roger Zelazny

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

— Roger Zelazny

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

— Roger Zelazny

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

— Roger Zelazny

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.

— Roger Zelazny

Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad from worse.

— Roger Zelazny

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and at that moment he struck.

— Roger Zelazny

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

— Roger Zelazny

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown.... To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

— Roger Zelazny