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 ZelaznyIt is anticipation and recollection that fill the heartโnever the sensation of the moment.
Roger ZelaznyThus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.
Roger ZelaznyDid you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonalโthe motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?
Roger ZelaznyI 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