All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

the best of all good friends is pride.

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.