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
battle thighs maidens
The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
art mean civilization
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
mirrors wish shows
...even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.
stars eye angel
There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.
spring sorrow clock
At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.
time men climbing
Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
earth meek meekness
Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
death too-much
The dead are too much with us.
buddhism
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.
wombats company dies
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
pain waiting-around trying
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
men sight finals
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.
army men years
An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must spread his opposition across a period of many years if he is to have a chance of succeeding.
art thinking metaphor
If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.