California, that advance post of our civilisation, 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.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

The west coast of Iowa.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California, you lose one point of IQ_ every year.

A wet dream in the mind of New York.

California is a tragic country, like Palestine, like every promised land.