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

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

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.

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

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.

His transcendent sense of worth had risen and caught up to him. He did not like the world he lived in, and the people in it. He was just as much a victim as he was a culprit of the seven deadly sins.

I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

You know, there's that temptation in interviews to make yourself sound - well, to give yourself a bit of mystery.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.

The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.