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

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

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

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

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

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.