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

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

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

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception