No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?