Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a full-grown man.”

“I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.”

“I was born in the city of Baltimore about the middle of the year 1875. My father was a well-to-do citizen of that city, and my mother was a very beautiful woman. I was an only child.”