로저 젤라즈니
당신이 죽으려고 할 참에 웜뱃은 아무 친구가 없는 것 보다 낫다.
호르헤 루이스 보르헤스
새들이 없는 세상을 상상할 수 없는 사람이 있다. 물 없는 세상을 상상할 수 있는 사람이 있다. 나로 말할 것 같으면, 책 없는 세상을 상상할 수 없다.
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Life itself is a quotation.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Every writer “creates” his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
엘라 피츠제럴드
정말 하기 원하는 일을 그냥 포기하지 말라. 사랑과 영감이 있는 곳에서 잘못될 일은 없다고 생각한다.
어디서 왔는지가 아니라 어디로 가는지가 중요한 것이다.
노래하는 것보다 오직 더 좋은 것은 더 노래하는 것이다.
I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
막스 베버
책임과 권위는 동전의 양면과 같다. 권위가 없는 책임이란 있을 수 없으며 책임이 따르지 않는 권위도 있을 수 없다.