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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

And remember, even when you can't sing, you can always plant a tree

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.