I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand.

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

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

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.

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

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.