You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.