We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Golf is a mental disorder.

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

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.