fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.
the only revenge worth having is success.
The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.
there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.