Roger Zelazny - This Immortal (1965)

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My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures—a drink of cold water when you are thirsty, liquor when you are not, sex, a cigarette after many days without one—there is none of them can compare with sleep. Sleep is best....

Roger Zelazny

I wasn't disappointed, inasmuch as I expected nothing.

Roger Zelazny

The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.

Roger Zelazny

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change.
Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse, I told him.

Roger Zelazny

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

Roger Zelazny

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking—by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

Roger Zelazny

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

Roger Zelazny