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

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.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Traveling through space is stupifyingly monotonous.

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.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.