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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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