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

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.

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.

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

A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

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

I love you too much to lose you over something so little. “Roommates With Benefits.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

The shortest path is no always the fastest.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

I pre-screen restaurants because my objective is to never have a bad meal, and I get pretty close to that.

I’m going to be exposed, aren’t I? (Acheron) I don’t know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don’t want to go blind. (Savitar)

I just believe in whatever you're going to do, even if it's work, have a little bit of fun attitude about it. You can be happy.

Attention! Attention! Attention! Thou art aware of the situation!