Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
11 quotes
"He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy."
"Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper."
"Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming."
"No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words."
"The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three."
"I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar."
"I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar."
"But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!"
"Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck."
"First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it."
"The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden."