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

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.

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

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.

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

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 won't let you.

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

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

When one is at the edge and falls then it’s a splendour to many an eyes until the flow begins all over again - keep flowing because that’s what’s life is about.

Jesus went into the temple... overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

These new bands sound like Gang of Four — if Gang of Four sucked.

Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

For an omnipotent and omniscient being, God has made some really lousy earthly staffing decisions.

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.