Roger Zelazny Amber Quotes

#1. I never plan ahead, with the exception of the Amber books which had to proceed in sequence. But I don't really like to know what I'm going to be working on a year in advance. So I just sign blank contracts for books and whatever strikes me as a good idea is what I write about.

Roger Zelazny

#2. I have no interest in movies that take you somewhere dark and leave you there, for no reason.

Paul Bettany

#3. I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!

Carol Berg

#4. All roads lead to Amber, he said, as though it were an axiom.

Roger Zelazny

#5. Amber casts an infinity of shadows, and my Avalon had cast many of its own, because of my presence there. I might be known on many earths that I had never trod, for shadows of myself had walked them, mimicking imperfectly my deeds and my thoughts.

Roger Zelazny

#6. The definition of love is giving.

Bai Ling

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

Roger Zelazny

#8. Blood!" I called out.
Give me blood and vengeance this day, my warriors, and you will be remembered in Amber forever!"
And as a man. they raised their weapons and cried out, "Blood!

Roger Zelazny

#9. The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players.

Roger Milla

#10. There is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real.

Roger Zelazny

#11. Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?

Isaac Newton

#12. There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

Robert A. Heinlein