When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

But a man needs company.

Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.