phoenix, n.All

Phoenix is a place where you can drive two hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley.

Phoenix is a city whose four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and are you freakin' kidding me.

Phoenix is arizona’s urban heart

The Phoenix is also very much like an intelligent eagle, with gold and crimson plumage and an exceptionally waggish tail. It has the advantage of fifty orifices in his bill, through which he occasionally sings melodious songs to oblige the company. As he never appears to anyone more than once in five hundred years, sometimes, when he has the toothache for instance, only once in a thousand years—which is why he is called a rara avis—if you ever meet him at any time take particular notice of him. And if you can draw, if it is only the long bow, make a sketch of him. He lives chiefly on poets—which is why so many refer to him. He has been a good friend to the poets of all ages, as your cousin William will explain. If you have not got a cousin William, ask some one who has.

Phoenix is an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.