A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart.

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious beliefin lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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