Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

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.

It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

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

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.