California Dreaming Quotes

“The nights in California are like indoors; there's no weather, no elements. Everybody is in the big livingroom of life. Cars pass by, trolleys clang; groups scuffle by; newsboys shout, and you look up--and there is no sky, just the ceiling of strange California time. Crowds surge around you; it's like being home in the parlor.

[letter to Neal Cassady, Jan. 8, 1951]”
― Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1940-1956

“You haven't lived till you lived in California . . . you'll see.

[letter to Gabrielle Kerouac, Apr. 25, 1953]”
― Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1940-1956

“I often felt nervous passing through the hallway of my own home, and the Golden State was simply where I lived. For me, there was no California Dreaming. I just was, at the center of it all.”
― Tania Runyan, Making Peace With Paradise: an autobiography of a California girl