If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Golf is a mental disorder.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously

Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.

Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.

The purpose and point of this life is to learn and love – and it may be more specifically to learn to love.

I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.