California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

After all, the world is not a stage -- not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches... and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what yo

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.