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

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.