Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmo….

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them..

The final result of too much routine is death in life..

I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spo….

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity..

I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don'….

Success is a great healer..

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery..

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them..

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves..

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices..

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions..

nothing in life is more corroding than habit..

The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance..

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion….

the only revenge worth having is success..

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing..

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspep….

Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whet….

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next..

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world..