Quotes from Wright Morris

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

The man who comes to writing late, but is in essence a writer, may sometimes gain as much as he has lost: his experience of life has given him a subject, he is spared the youthful writer's self-torment and soul-searching.

They all liked California, but they thought the people were cold.

Pretty good-looking women, in the main, thanks to the California sun.

Beaches are the same the world over. . . . I don't mean to be ironic. California is that way naturally. It's hard to do malice to California.

Here on the West Coast a soda jerk, willing to choose between a chick and a Thunderbird, can have the Thunderbird.

This is California. You can't have everything.