How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content.