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

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.

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

But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy.

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

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

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.