Hinton Helper Quotes

“I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America.”

“Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.”

“Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.”

“I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.”

“Love is a contact sport you were born to win.”

“The one thing I have that nobody else has or can duplicate is my sound. The sound of my voice. The sound of my life. Others may say similar things but they can’t say them like I do.”

“If it took your authentic voice to get you there, it will take your authentic voice to keep you there. Your job is to keep listening.”

“We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of obligation, thereby cheating those important to us of the purest expression of our love. We must say "no" to treating ourselves, our health, our needs as not as important as someone else's. We must say “no.”

“Life is so much more about the experience than the destination. One will waste their life if they are waiting to reach a goal to celebrate. Still, it happens all the time.”

“If you are single and don't want to be. The only regret is staying that way.”