Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

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.

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.

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

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.