The Courts of Chaos (The Chronicles of Amber #5)

by Roger Zelazny

“No man can have everything he wants the way that he wants it,” he said.

The fact that it is easier for us to take a straight course does not make it the only way. We all pursue it so much of the time, though, that we tend to forget that one can also make progress by going around in circles . . .

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.