He was . . . a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher, and more than a touch of the pagan. . . . A hunger ….

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there….

Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirt….

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight..

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions..

I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been..

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one..

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things..

I became a writer in spite of my environments..

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak..

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it..

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish..

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

Barbarism is the natural state of mankind..

I don't believe I ever saw an Oklahoman who wouldn't fight at the drop of a hat - and frequently drop the hat himself..

I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply..

Some mechanism in my sub-consciousness took the dominant characteristics of various prize-fighters, gunmen, bootleggers, oil field bullies, gamblers,….

No man can be convinced when he will not..

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases..

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die..

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?.