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

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.

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.

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.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

Shamans submit to death in order to serve their communities.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Every election, Mickey Mouse looks better and better as President.

Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

The rich are never threatened by the poor - they do not notice them.

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.