Prince of Chaos Quotes

“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“...the headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something - or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“don’t know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something — or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it’s just an ego trip.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“So let sleeping wyverns lie.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“Mandor licked his lips. It was the first time I’d ever seen him betray a sign of nervousness. It instantly made me wary-though I realized moments later that it may have been a calculated distraction.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“Can’t pass up the pleasure of lighting a candle to myself in my own church.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“His eyes were mocking and wise, his hair red as his sister Fiona’s or his late brother Brand’s. Or Luke’s, for that matter.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“Impulsively, I leaned forward. Our lips met within the mirror. Whatever she was, we had been friends.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“My name is Delwin, and we may never actually meet-unless certain ancient powers come loose.”

He raised his hand, and I saw that he, too, wore a spikard. He moved toward me.

“Touch your ring to mine,” he commanded. “Then it can be ordered to bring you to me.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“We musst ssit together in a warm place by night once again and drink milk and talk of the old dayss.”

“That would be nice. Yes, if we are not eaten by something bigger.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“You will in an ideal position to protect your friends,” he said, “and to do as you would with your enemies.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“I am beat, bushed, and whacked-out. I am going to lie here and stare at the fog till my mind goes away,” I said. “Meet Coral, Nayda, and Dalt. Hear their story and tell them yours, Jurt. Don’t wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“Her fangs would have shredded my human ear, but it was only a nibble in demonform.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“People became fascinated by our conquerors. Biographical studies of Amber’s royal family sold very well. Something like a cult began to shape. Private chapels such as this began to appear, dedicated to a particular Amberite whose virtues appealed to someone.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“Seconds after we had seated ourselves, a brilliant flash of light came to us across the water, illuminating the arching dome of the cavern vault like the ribbed interior of some massive beast that was digesting us.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“As she descended, she shifted smoothly, her appearance changing almost from step to step. As soon as I realized what was occurring I relaxed my own efforts and revised their small effects. I had commenced changing the moment I had seen her, and presumably she had done the same on viewing me. I hadn’t thought she’d go to that extent to humor me, a second time, here on her own turf.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“She was a blizzard within a ten-foot tower. Lightnings danced at its center, crackling; particles of ice clicked and rattled upon the stair, the banister grew frosted where she passed. My mother. She seemed to see me at about the same time I saw her, for she halted. Then she made the turn onto the stair and began her descent.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“One night we shall eat mice and lie besside a fire. You will warm me a ssaucer of milk and tell me of your adventuress ssince you left the Wayss of Ssawall.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“A falling start burned its way down the purple sky as I turned away, headed for the copper-chased door and the low Maze of Art beyond it.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“It was almost as if I traversed the interior of a mind, one not unkindly disposed toward me.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“I’ve decided you were a bad influence on my son,” she said. “He lost his edge when he became friends with you.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“A mother tends to value her son’s safety, whether the son likes it or not.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“Think of how embarrassing that is for a grown man-his mother sending demons to look after him.”

“The singular. It was just one demon, dear.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“One wonders at his deliveries,” my mother said, “without apparent rehearsal.”

“Grace,” Suhuy commented. “He was born with an abundance.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“You’ve been out of sigh, though hardly out of mind, for some time.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“There was a confrontation between the Unicorn and the Serpent in the halls of Amber Palace, resulting in considerable damage.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“Shadowmasters are technicians of locally potent skill, whose ability derives from the Logrus, although all intiates are automatically members of the Shadowmaster Guild.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“While it’s awfully hard to pass through Shadow in Amber, the shadows are like frayed curtains in the Courts-often you can look right through into another reality without trying. And, sometimes, something in the other reality may be looking at you. Care must be taken, not to step through into a place where you find yourself in the middle of the air, underwater, or in the path of a raging torrent. The Courts were never big on tourism.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos

“We entered a long night, and at some point it seemed that our way too us beneath deep waters, bright sea creatures hovering and darting both near at hand and in the middle distance. Dry and uncrushed, the black way protected us.”
― Roger Zelazny, Prince of Chaos