But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.

It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.