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California's cascading crises prefigure America's future unless
Washington reverses the growth of government subservient to organized
labor. The state cannot pay its bills, poorly educates its young, and
its taxation punishes whatever success that its suffocating regulatory
regime does not prevent. -- George Will
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. -- Edward Abbey
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the
best of nothing. -- Raymond Chandler
Here is a climate that breeds vigor, with just sufficient geniality to prevent the expenditure of most of that vigor in fighting the elements. Here is a climate where a man can work three hundred and sixty-five days in the year without the slightest hint of enervation, and where for three hundred and sixty-five nights he must perforce sleep under blankets. What more can one say? ... Nevertheless I take my medicine by continuing to live in this climate. Also, it is the only medicine I ever take. -- Jack London
California,
that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft
factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its
flavorless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions,
its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and
character. -- J.B. Priestley
California is a queer place -- in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. -- DH Lawrence
The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days and more of them, than any other country. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way. -- Joan Didion
The devil having been banished and virtue being triumphant, nothing terribly interesting can ever happen again. -- George F. Kennan (on California's resemblance to heaven)
You don't have to enjoy being miserable anymore; you're in California now. -- Mathew Fisher
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