I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.
Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
Success is a great healer.
the only revenge worth having is success.
California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.