I love you, and because I love you I believe in you. But if I did not believe, still should I love. Had you come back for me, and had there been no o… - Edgar Rice Burroughs

I had been trying to find a publisher who would put some of my stuff into book form, but I met with no encouragement. Every well-known publisher in the United States turned down Tarzan of the Apes, including A.C. McClurg & Co., who finally issued it, my first story in book form.

The more one knows of one's religion the less one believes - no one living knows more of mine than I.

With man it is different. When he comes many of the larger animals instinctively leave the district entirely, seldom if ever to return; and thus it has always been with the great anthropoids. They flee man as man flees a pestilence.