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.

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

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

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.

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.

The seasons run with swift feet.