In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

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

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

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

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.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

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