California Quote by Tiffany Madison

“But what other place on Earth has been more congenial to believers and promoters of mad dreams and schemes of so many kinds? California…

— Kurt Andersen

“The most tragic thing about California is that nothing is permanent or real here," he says. "It gets to you, you know?”

— Sarah Ockler

“If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.”

— Richard Henry Dana Jr

“When California goes bankrupt, the Golden State's woes will be nationalized and shared with the nation at large: the feckless must have their irresponsibility…

— Mark Steyn

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America,…

— Gray Davis

“I came to quite an opposite conclusion, and have not wavered from it since. I do not think[Pg 116] there will ever be a…

— Edward Money

“About a billion cops,” Darling said. “You move there, you’ll have fifty government workers looking at you, checking your tax records, asking where you…

— John Sandford

“California is a marvel: a hotbed of technology innovation, home of the entertainment industry, with huge long stretches of just the most gorgeous coastline…

— Sara K. Smith

“Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was…

— Joshua Ferris

“There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.”

— Laura Kalpakian

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

— Hinton Rowan Helper

“I have seen purer liquors, better seagars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans here, than in…

— David Wondrich