No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

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

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.