Communism
doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) American singer-songwriter
My
attitude toward anybody's sexual persuasion is this: without deviation from the
norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) American singer-songwriter
I
wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
Frank Zappa (1940-1993) American singer-songwriter on the influence of music
on behavior
To
paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known
this some time ago."
Roger Zelazny (1937-1995)
American writer Sign of the Unicorn
As
I was finishing, I heard a crashing noise. A horned and tusked purple thing
went racing along the ridge to my right pursued by a hairless orange-skinned
creature with long claws and a forked tail. Both were wailing in different
keys.
I nodded. It was just one damned thing after another.
Roger Zelazny (1937-1995)
American writer Trumps of Doom (1985)
I like libraries.
It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and
wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is
something to hold back the shadows.
Roger Zelazny (1937-1995) American
writer
“I can see that you have a lot to unlearn.” “If you are talking about my vulgar instinct for survival, forget it.”Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos, Corwin
. . . if
one always listened to the voice of reason, one would never do anything
interesting.
Roger Zelazny (1937-1995)
American writer and Sheckley
Humans
are tough. We have to be. We're the survivors of the saber-tooth tigers and the
glaciers, of tyrannical empires and barbarian invasions, of horrible famines
and devastating plagues. You name it, you've got ancestors that have faced it,
and overcome it.
Robert Zubrin,
The Case for Mars
In
the coming world they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask
me, 'Why were you not Zusya?'
Rabbi Meshullam Zusya of Hanipol (1718-1800)
Hassidic teacher
People
do wrong because they don't have the strength to do right.
Rabbi Meshullam Zusya of Hanipol (1718-1800)
Hassidic teacher