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.

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

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.

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.

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.