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.

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!

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

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

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.

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