California Quote by Michael Connelly

California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm still trying…

— Edan Lepucki

Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so…

— Gus Van Sant

The California tract houses are like the mundane meeting the mystical. Sometimes if you're driving at twilight, and you see those houses, and they're…

— Zal Batmanglij

Los Angeles is such a mysterious place because there's so much evil in that city, but there's also so much light. You can be…

— Lykke Li

“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

“Los Angeles in 1912 was a sprawling flatland stretching between the ocean and the mountains. Within a thirty-five-mile radius, there were forty incorporated towns,…

— Cari Beauchamp

I've seen a lot of LA and I think it's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. And no one…

— Victoria Tennant

I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity…

— Kevin Starr

A large part of California is a sensual state. It has a huge range of geographical features and in addition to the deserts and…

— Michael C. McMillen

If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the human spirit…

— Huell Howser

“Southern California is the land of crazy crimes.”

— Don Carpenter

Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom's family was one of the early families in California, so there's history going back to the…

— Kim Gordon