You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.