Zelazny Amber Quotes

#1. Tell me something you haven't told anyone else before' 'turtles have the second biggest brain in the world' ' no they don't why did you tell me that' 'because I haven't told that to anyone else

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. 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

#3. Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Bertrand Russell

#4. One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

Jude Watson

#5. 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

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

Roger Zelazny

#7. Make a Fair Product for a Fair Price, then Tell the World.

William Wrigley Jr.

#8. 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

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

Roger Zelazny

#10. Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

Tim Ferriss

#11. 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

#12. My parents never projected their dreams onto me. If they hoped I would be a great pitcher, or political figure, or artist (no chance), they never told me about it. Their view of parenting was to offer love and encourage me to chart my own path.

George W. Bush

#13. Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

Denis MacShane

#14. America is indeed a revelation, though not quite the one that was planned. Given a clean slate, man, it was hoped, would write the future. Instead, he has written his past.

Mary McCarthy

#15. My queen, his thoughts said reverently.
My ass, I didn't reply out loud.

Jeaniene Frost

#16. Life chucks a bunch of stuff at us, stuff we have no control over, but we can decide how to handle it all. We shape our lives with the choices we make.

Cathy Cassidy

#17. 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

#18. The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it.
I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

Arthur Conan Doyle