Lives there upon any world such another as John Carter, Prince of Helium? Lives there another man who could fight his way back and forth across a warlike planet, facing savage beasts and hordes of savage men, for the love of a woman?

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or it's kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

P 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same problems which we must face in the same primeval forest. That we are here today evidences their victory.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

P33- the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild beast which the dead could not still.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

P44- in Tarzan clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

...smiles are the foundation of beauty.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Teach me to speak the language of men.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs