Christmas Quote by Chiara Barzini

“I love LA! The freeways, the cars, the smog, the glitter, the glitz, the sleaze, the prostitutes, the poison that falls from the sky.”

— Donald O'Donovan

“Christmas ought to be brought up to date,” Maria said. “It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.”

— John Masefield

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and…

— Jack Kerouac

“Driving a Bentley to Target- only in LA does this make sense.”

— A.M. Homes

“It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination.…

— Joan Didion

“It was a beautiful, clear Southern California kind of Christmas Eve, the kind where Santa shows up in khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt…

— Z.A. Maxfield

“They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything…

— Alice Thomas Ellis

“A department store two days before Christmas Eve is like a city in a state of siege....”

— Rachel Cohn

The consensus is that no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss…

— Jeff Cooper

“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed and the dejected. ”

— Jimmy Cannon

“The stores along Hollywood Boulevard were already beginning to fill up with overpriced Christmas junk, and the daily papers were beginning to scream about…

— Raymond Chandler

Let's give thanks our neighborhood is too dangerous for Christmas caroling.

— Anonymous