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

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

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 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.

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

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?