"I was awakened by a tremendous earthquake,
and though I hadn't ever before enjoyed a storm of this sort,
the strange thrilling motion could not be mistaken,
and I ran out of my cabin, both glad and frightened,
shouting, 'A noble earthquake!' feeling sure I was going to learn something."
"The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean
and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden,
which was only a garden."
"God will break California
from the surface of the continent
like someone breaking
off a piece of chocolate.
It will become its own floating paradise
of underweight movie stars and dot-commers,
like a fat-free Atlantis with superfast Wi-Fi."
"There's a Sigalert for the carpool lane on the 5 south."
"The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange
in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits.
It was beautiful deception,(...)
Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog
that made their colors so brilliant,
that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story."
"Los Angeles was the kind of place
where everybody was from somewhere else
and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place.
People drawn by the dream,
people running from the nightmare.
Twelve million people and all of them ready
to make a break for it if necessary.
Figuratively, literally, metaphorically
-- any way you want to look at it --
everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case."
where everybody was from somewhere else
and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place.
People drawn by the dream,
people running from the nightmare.
Twelve million people and all of them ready
to make a break for it if necessary.
Figuratively, literally, metaphorically
-- any way you want to look at it --
everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case."
“This morning I saw a coyote
walking through the sagebrush
right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China.
The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming,
except that there were whales passing below.
That’s what this country does for you.
Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room
to get outside its marrow.”
walking through the sagebrush
right at the very edge of the ocean ― next stop China.
The coyote was acting like he was in New Mexico or Wyoming,
except that there were whales passing below.
That’s what this country does for you.
Come down to Big Sur and let your soul have some room
to get outside its marrow.”
"It takes 20 mins, depending on traffic."
