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

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

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

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.

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

A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed.

If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right.

Life is all I have, it is enough!

We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.

The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying

It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful.