Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

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.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.