California Quotes

There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco.

California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot If you ain’t got the do re mi.

L.A. Is a meat factory that grinds people into neat little packages.

Isn’t it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

Back about in 48; or ’46 an eager-beaver American army officer captured California. You know what the State Department did? They made him hand it back. Seems he hadn’t touched second base, or something. So they had to go to the trouble of capturing it all over again a few months later.

California, n.: From Latin “calor”, meaning “heat” (as in English “calorie” or Spanish “caliente”); and “fornia'” for “sexual intercourse” or “fornication.” Hence: Tierra de California, “the land of hot sex.”

What I believed in the Sixties: Everything. You name it and I believed it. I believed love was all you need. I believed you should be here now. I believed drugs could make everyone a better person. I believed I could hitchhike to California with thirty-five cents and people would be glad to feed me. […]