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It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.