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, 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.

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.

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

I don't think anyone at Fox believes they are producing even-handed, impartial coverage.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude - and a lot less greed.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.