There's nothing in the universe cold steel won't cut, answered Conan. "I threw my ax at the demon, and he took no hurt, but I might have missed in th… - Robert E. Howard

I'm not going out of my way looking for devils; but I wouldn't step out of my path to let one go by.

"Barbarism is the natural state of mankind," the borderer said, still staring somberly at the Cimmerian. "Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph."

By this axe I rule!

It was a convulsion of obscenity, a spasm of lasciviousness – an exudation of secret hungers framed by compulsion: desire without pleasure, pain mated awfully to lust. It was like watching a soul stripped naked, and all its dark and unmentionable secrets laid bare.