Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.