“Southern California doesn’t know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.” – Neal Stephenson
“There’s no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.” – Roberto Bolano
“So when he asked about getting high, I didn’t think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green, took three tries to put me in the place he said should be.” – Ellen Hopkins
“Best way to live in California is to be from somewhere else.” – Cormac McCarthy
“When California provides the same value as other locations, I’d gladly shoot all my pictures here.” – Joel Silver
“In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.” – Woody Allen
“to say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantage of being in California – mightily.” – Warren Beatty
“Do you anything at all that nobody else know or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you’re going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.” – S. J. Perelman
“I was raised with the Bible Belt mentality, and by coming to California, I came out of this dark place and unlearned a lot of things I’d been taught.” – Edward Ruscha
“As if this whole thing isn’t confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with letter R, then W, the Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.” – Jay Leno
“Adultery – which is the only grounds for divorce in New York – is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.” – Allan Sherman
“Things are tough all over, cupcake, an’ it rains on the just an’ the unjust alike…except in California.” – Alan Moore
“California is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an orange.” – Fred Allen
“California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different materials, different colors. There’s a lot of craziness out there.” – Parker Stevenson
“When I’m wondering around the Himalayas, most of the people that I see are Westerners from Germany, California, or the Netherlands, who are wearing sandals, Indian smocks, and are in search of enlightenment, antiquity, peace, and all the things they can’t get in the west. Most of the people they meet are Nepali villagers in Lee jeans, Reeboks, and Madonna T-shirts who are looking for the paradise that they associate with Los Angeles – a paradise of material prosperity and abundance.” – Pico Iyer
“California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.” – J.B. Priestley
“Portland is a really great city, especially because I’m a shopper and there’s no sales taxes! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.” – Bitsie Tulloch
“Earlier tonight the second Republican debate took place here in California. With 10 men and only one woman, everyone thought they were watching ‘The Bachelorette.” – Conan O’Brien
“The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors, and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope – dealers of California.” – Robert Anton Wilson
“There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.” – Calvin Trillin
“You know, the history of California art doesn’t start until about 1961, and that’s when these photographs start. I mean, we have no history out here.” – Dennis Hopper
“We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it’s called California.” – J.C. Watts
“Prison guards unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.” – Michelle Alexander
“Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protection for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign films technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.” – Victor Davis Hanson
“California is like the hot blonde high school chick who’s been getting by on her looks, but now she’s 45 and falling apart.” – Adam Carolla
“instead of basic roads and bridges, infrastructure spending will go to bloated unions overseeing pie-in-the-sky construction project like the $30 billion-plus high-speed rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which California officials fully expect to be funded.” – Michelle Malkin
“The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today’s worker in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today’s workers don’t have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American state, like California are going broke.” – Dennis Prager
“I like living in California. I think it’s the best state, although were supposedly the most hated state of all.” – Madeline Zima
“President Bush appeared with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a huge campaign event. Only in California can a governor who speak German and a President who can barely speak English try to make themselves clear to an audience that’s primarily Spanish.” -Jay leno
“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cult and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.” – Brit Marling
