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 has power to harm me as much as I have to harm him. If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt."" Then I am to take it that Monsieur Tarzan would prefer to go naked into the jungle, armed only with a jackknife, to kill the king of beasts," laughed the other good naturally, but with the merest touch of sarcasm in his tone." And a piece of rope," added Tarzan.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

If your vocation be shoeing horses, or painting pictures, and you can do one or the other better than your fellows, then you are a fool if you are not proud of your ability. And so I am very proud that upon two planets no greater fighter has ever lived than John Carter, Prince of Helium.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Imagination is but another name for superintelligence.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

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 Thorns, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs