Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

[Warfare is] maleness in its absurdest extremes. Here is to be studied the whole gamut of basic masculinity, from the initial instinct of combat, through every form of glorious ostentation, with the loudest accompaniment of noise.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.