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.

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.

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.

I love movies.

Things are forgotten so fast today. Even if 1,000 people are slaughtered, the next day you forget. There has to be new news every day.

For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say.

Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone difficult to share it with.

I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.

Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.