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.

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

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.

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

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

The music paled like a candle and went out.