It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.

Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all.

with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.