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.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

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.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

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