For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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

As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

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

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

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