"And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon..."
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
"I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it."
"I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots. "
"So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan"
"...smiles are the foundation of beauty."
"Imagination is but another name for super intelligence."
"I do not understand exactly what you mean by fear," said Tarzan. "Like lions, fear is a different thing in different men, but to me the only pleasure in the hunt is the knowledge that the hunted thing..."
"I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Th..."
"What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm."Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him."I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave an..."
"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 reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is..."