Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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.

I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

Nature always levies her tribute.