
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
"Fastest Growing Heartache In The West," from Beaucoups Of Blues (1970)
Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)
“I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.”
From the TV documentary The Importance of Being Morrissey (2003); also quoted in "Return of the lone stranger" by Mark Simpson in Guardian Unlimited (31 May 2003)
In interviews etc., About himself and his work
“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”
Winokur, Jon. The Portable Curmudgeon, p. 174. http://books.google.com/books?id=V0DUAXBkf_0C Plume, 1992. ISBN 0452266688
Attributed
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
(2021 rev. ed.), this quote was attributed to Wright in Art Spiegelman and Bob Schneider, Whole Grains: Book of Quotations (1973), but a similar quote was credited to Will Rogers in The Washington Post on May 17, 1964: "Tilt this country on end and everything loose will slide into Los Angeles."
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_New_Yale_Book_of_Quotations/FtU4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA906&printsec=frontcover New Yale Book of Quotations
“The final story, the final chapter of Western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.”
Source: The Broadside Tapes 1 (made in the 1960s; published c. 1980), Liner notes
Her indignant comments on the runaway success of her musical Mamma Mia!, which grossed a $575m across the globe.
"Meryl Streep: Movies, marriage, and turning sixty," 2009