Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

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

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.