Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!