The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

the best of all good friends is pride.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.