California Quotes

Los Angeles is like one of those machines that treat flour. When the wheat comes in, it’s full of interestinging ingredients – but it goes through this machine and what you get out at the end is perfect white crap.

I had been warned many times by American friends that I must expect to find a mushroom town filled to overflowing with exquisitely beautiful young ladies. My first impression was that Los Angeles is a toadstool town filled to overflowing with centenarians… I discovered afterwards, of course, that these are the Middle-Westerners, who have come […]

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days, and more of them, than any other country.

If they’d lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I’d settle here until the next earthquake.

Los Angeles… I mean, who would want to live in a place where the only cultural advantage is that you can turn right on a red light.

Everything in Los Angles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

Los Angeles is famous for three things: first as a city where more suckers are strung, and more wallets are extracted than in any other city of like size in America. Second as a city where the marriage relation is made ridiculous and where sex-stimulation is at the maximum. Third as a city where there […]

California is running out of electricity… What can the rest of us do to help our fellow countrypersons in California? The answer is that we can send them our spare electricity. Just imagine what would happen if all the households in this great and generous nation got out their extension cords and connected them together, […]

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

Now imagine the scene. A peninsula with the Pacific on one side of it and the huge bay on the other – a peninsula bumpy with bold, precipitous hills, some of them nearly a thousand feet high. The San Franciscans work in the valleys and live on the hills. Cable cars haul them up in […]