I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.
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.
Genius is a good deal like the sea. . . Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it.
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.
Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult.
I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.
You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you; you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.
I don't like conflict.