It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.