"I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them."
- Roger Zelazny
"Nobody steals books but your friends."
"To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago."
"It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment."
"Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we..."
"I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call."
"Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects."
"It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he neared, and it was as though I had an eternity to ponder the approach of this man who was my brother. H..."
"I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be."
"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..."