I am not going in this time with any iridescent ideas.

It is to be a cold, prosaic, matter-of-fact business proposition.

It is better than going to sea again, and I shall earn more money than any position in Oakland can bring an unskilled man." "You see, this vacation I have taken has given me perspective.

I haven't been working the life out of my body, and I haven't been writing, at least not for publication.

All I've done has been to love you and to think.