Arizona

“Things in Arizona don't just die; they bake and fry in the heat until there is nothing left.”

“You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up mass transit in the dictionary.”

“You know you're an Arizona native when you think Taco Bell is the local phone company.”

“The trip [...] across Arizona [is] just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there. I like Arizona.”

“Why are the feds worried about me clocking on this corner, when there's politicians out here getting popped in Arizona?”

“You know you're an Arizona native when you run to the window just to watch a dust storm.”

“Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher. It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it. There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets.”

“Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.”