Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it..

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard..

California, where the spring comes in the fall and the fall comes in the summer and the summer comes in the winter and the winter never comes at all..

California ... produces the maximum of scenery and the minimum of weather..

It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times..

Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-height….

I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else..

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life wo….

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art..

with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic insti….

whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stov….