Share this page: I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. -- Goodbye to Berlin (1930) We live in stirring times -- tea-stirring times. -- Mr. Norris Changes Trains (1935) California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations -- the land-rush, the gold-rush, the oil-rush, the movie-rush -- followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful. -- "Los Angeles" (1947); reprinted in: Exhumations (1966) Like Shelley and like Baudelaire it may be said of him that he suffered, in his own person, the neurotic ills of an entire generation. -- Of T. E. Lawrence in "Lawrence of Arabia" (1947); reprinted in: Exhumations (1966) Share this page:

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