Roger Zelazny Amber Chronicles Quotes

#1. Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Howard Gordon

#2. Understanding is the key to everything. To rage, fear, love. If you understand a situation, it's going to make you mad. Or it's going to make you feel fearful. If any of us even had a clue as to what Bush and those people were up to, we'd be running stark crazy mad out of fear.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#3. Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Thomas Jefferson

#4. After nearly making a terrible mistake not buying See's, we've made this mistake many times. We are apparently slow learners. These opportunity costs don't show up on financial statements, but have cost us many billions.

Charlie Munger

#5. I loved him like a brother - which is to say, not at all.

Roger Zelazny

#6. Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Dave Barry

#7. I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.

Christopher Marlowe

#8. Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.

Charlie Munger

#9. Every moment is an edict spoken by its past. The past is the real tyranny.

Seth Dickinson

#10. Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.

Osho

#11. Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.

Jenny McCarthy