No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.

They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.

Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.

That’s what it means to be in love, Marin. It means doing everything in your power to ensure that the one you love lives to see another day, because the world would be that much darker without them.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

I need to write, and I can't write when I'm on the road.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.