"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us."
Roger Joseph Zelazny was an American fantasy and science fiction writer known for his short stories and novels focusing on mythology and various religions, best known for The Chronicles of Amber series. He won the Nebula Award three times and the Hugo Award six times, including two Hugos for novels: the serialized novel ...And Call Me Conrad (1965), subsequently published under the title This Immo
"Oh, I dont know — thats a hell of a question — I dont tend to look at my stuff that way. I just look at it a book at a time. Something like the Amber books are in a different class. I try not to anticipate. I dont know what Ill be writing a few years from now. I have some ideas — I have lots of different things I want to try. I almost dont really care what history thinks. I like the way Im being treated right now."
"“Ooh,” she said. A pause, then, “Is it sacred?” “No, it’s nicotine,” I answered, “a very ersatz form of divinity.”"
"Knowledge was what he needed. Fear was what he had."
"The days that followed were a game I enjoyed playing. Fake indecision is delicious when people want you to do something."
"Two days, like icebergs—bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind—drifted by and were good to put behind."
"In a world of physical ease, brutal social equality, and reasonable economic equality, exclusiveness in frivolity becomes the most sought-after of all distinctions."