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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in S

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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

How hard it is

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How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is lik

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It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate

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Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cul

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It is the land of perpetual pubescence, where cultural lag is mistaken for renaissance.

[T]his is California. Blond

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[T]his is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something.

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern soci

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Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.

You can fall in

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You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.

California is a queer place - in a way, it has tu

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California is a queer place - in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.... It's sort of crazy-sensible. Just the moment: hardly as far ahead as carpe diem.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los

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When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles.

They turned the country up on its side, and every

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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

Nobody can tell about this California climate.

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Nobody can tell about this California climate. One minute its hot and the next minute its cold, so a person never knows what to hock.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

California's a wonderful place to live - if you h

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California's a wonderful place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical

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Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that e

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I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

You can learn more about human nature by reading

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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

The final story, the final chapter of western man

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The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

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