Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California.

Sometimes it seems to me that the more we get hurt in this world the decenter it makes us.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.