It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

I believe in anything that works.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little.