Backdrop Quote by John Van Hamersveld

The thing about California is that it's kind of a dream, and I started to feel like I was living in a dream. I…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.

— Billy Bob Thornton

California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California…

— Mark Hoppus

California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its…

— J. B. Priestley

The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“The problem with being a second-generation Californian is you're not objective about California itself. I think a lot of people come here for the…

— Barbara Isenberg

I think of myself as California modern, and I'm hugely inspired by nature.

— Jeremiah Brent

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Southern California is a landscape of edges and contradictions set upon by a variegated human population that at times seems hell bent to leave…

— Penelope Grenoble

There's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.

— Mark Hoppus

And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams…

— Marya Hornbacher