A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

California ... produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

What you say to yourself after a failed experience or setback is as important as what you say when you succeed.

All knowledge begins with an expression of curiosity pertaining to the unknown or unknowable. Expressions of uncertainty and a doubtful nature lead a person to useful discoveries.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. That word again: purpose.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?