Christopher IsherwoodThinkers

California is a tragic country, like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

California is a great spot for meeting people who come from some place else.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Los Angeles is an advertisement for itself... none of its charms are left to the visitor's imagination.

A Screenwriter is a man who is being tortured to confess and has nothing to confess.

The United States is the greatest of all paradoxes: at one and the same time a democracy'at any rate a pluralist open society'and an empire.