Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.
Old age and youth cannot live together.
She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.
When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.