The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.

I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.

American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.

Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!

No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration.