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.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

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

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in the world to make you love me again

Beau’s arms slipped around my waist. I knew I should step away but I couldn’t make myself. This was home. Being in his arms like this was where I found peace.

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

We've all got the blood on our hands, we only receive what we demand.

As you get older, it's harder to maintain your weight and to fly through the air for those routines. It's also the lifestyle; you train seven to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.

I am a capable person, and I can handle anything that comes my way