The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.