While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
More Quotes from Roger Zelazny:
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.Roger Zelazny
I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
Roger Zelazny
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.
Roger Zelazny
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
When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.
Roger Zelazny
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects
Roger Zelazny
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Love QuotesI can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.
Lance Bass
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
Richard Powers
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Ross Perot