Jim Kuenzli > Jim's Quotes

“When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die," he mumbled, through mashed lips. "But I'd like a flagon of wine.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

“What happened to fantasy for me is what also happened to rock and roll. It found a common denominator for making maximum money. As a result, it lost its tensions, its anger, its edginess and turned into one big cup of cocoa.”
― Michael Moorcock

“In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.”
― Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Gods of Mars

“Lift that scimitar against me, you Hyrkanian pig and I'll gut you where you stand!”
― Robert E. Howard, Conan : die Original-Erzählungen aus den Jahren 1932 und 1933

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
― Robert E. Howard

“You can’t destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.”
― Leigh Brackett, The Long Tomorrow

“Their spells would bounce like billiard balls off anyone in a state of grace; simply the usual modicum of decency and determination would get a man through.”
― Poul Anderson, Three Hearts and Three Lions

“The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!”
― Robert E. Howard, King Kull