Hollywood is one place in the world where you can die of encouragement.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

People are more fun than anyone.

She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

It was written without fear and without research.