For me, temperance is essential to good work.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

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

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.