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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.