California Quote by Thomas Pynchon

“San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census…

— Thomas Pynchon

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if…

— Gary Oldman

Californians have brought suburb-making almost to an art. Their cities and their country-side are equally suburban. No-one has a country house in California; no-one…

— Stella Benson

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don't have names for what they are or haven't identified them all. We can't pinpoint…

— David Byrne

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

— Kim Gordon

San Francisco is a city; L.A. is a collection of suburbs that have very little in common with one another.

— Orson Bean

I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

— Richard Grieco

Cities are about juxtaposition.

— Richard Rogers

I hate people thinking their city is unique, but there is a certain aura about Los Angeles; it's not necessarily a beautiful thing, but…

— Michael Connelly

California is a huge state, larger than many countries. Not all regions are the same.

— Michelle Steel

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

“When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco “the City”. Of course it was the only city we knew,…

— John Steinbeck