Anxiety Quote by Edward Ruscha

“Los Angeles wasn’t a sun-splashed utopia anymore—it was an alienated, smog-choked sprawl rife with racial and class tensions, recession, and stifling boredom.”

— Michael Azerrad

“Los Angeles was the most glamorous, tackiest, most elegant, seediest, most clever, dumbest, most beautiful, ugliest, forward-looking, retro-thinking, altruistic, self-absorbed, deal-savvy, politically ignorant, artistic-minded,…

— Dean Koontz

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People…

— Michael Connelly

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out…

— Henry Miller

The travel that I've spent around the country, I always come back with ideas for L.A. and vice versa: My experiences in L.A. give…

— Eric Garcetti

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

— Joseph Barbera

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out…

— Henry Miller

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed…

— Aldous Huxley

Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about, and almost…

— Michael Connelly

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here…

— Ryan Kwanten

There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja…

— Martine Syms

“The more we talk about our troubles and our fears, the more life we breathe into them". HS/el”

— Evinda Lepins