In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.