“these sobering sights I've seen
in the City of Angels
have all been one rude awakening
that was due to me
in this city of fallen angels”

“By nation of origin of our people, by 2050, America will be a Third World country. Our great cities will all look like Los Angeles today. Los Angeles and the cities of the Southwest will look like Juarez and Tijuana…”

“When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.”

“Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel… City of Night?”

“You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels. That's interesting you should ask that, because I've never seen angels around bad people.”

“I don't mind if it's dangerous
I don't mind if it's raining
Take me up to the top of the city
And put me up on the angel's shoulders.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.”

“I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”

“He had a theory about it. It happened, and re-happened, because it was a city uninterested in history. Strange things occurred precisely because there was no necessary regard for the past. The city lived in a sort of everyday present. It had no need to believe in itself as a London, or an Athens, or even a signifier of the New World, like a Sydney, or a Los Angeles. No, the city couldn't care less about where it stood. He had seen a T-shirt once that said: NE YORK FUCKIN' CITY. As if it were the only place that ever existed and the only one that ever would.”

“He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.”