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

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.

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.

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.