Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions a….

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The la….

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air….

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them..

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood..

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the w….

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing..

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger..

The music paled like a candle and went out..

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it..

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive..

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ...….

Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans ….

What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and….

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms..

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other..

Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been….

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart..

Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it..

Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic be….

Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life wa….