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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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