When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Pretty girls make graves

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?