It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
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.
whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.
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.
I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else.
Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. . . . City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.
If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries. ' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo
History has thrust something upon me from which I cannot turn away.
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.