California

“California's a wonderful place to live — if you happen to be an orange.”

“California, I'll be knocking on the golden doorRising up to paradise, I know I'm going to shine.”

“California's like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me.”

“If everybody had an ocean across the USA,Then everybody'd be surfin' like Californ-I-A.”

“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.”

“Whatever starts in California unfortunately has a tendency to spread.”

“I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.”

“This was California. You could get LSD fresh made from Stanford. You could sleep on the beach at night with your girlfriend. California has a sense of experimentation and a sense of openness—openness to new possibilities.”

“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.”

“As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit southern California to observe the future.”

“Then, she take it all in. Best kush filling my joints. Say I sound too L.A.? That's the point!”

“When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. It was the heart of the hippie activity, and it was our culture, our generation, expressing itself at its most festive, so it was a real magnet for the young people … with the love-ins and so on.”

“California, Florida, whatever. Either way, your pale ass is getting a tan.”

“What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.”

“I wish they all could be CaliforniaI wish they all could be California girls.”