Death, only, renders hope futile.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 e…

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the directi…

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of rea…

- Edgar Rice Burroughs