What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

…letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon. – Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall

Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter — and hell spends the summer. – Popular saying, modified from a booster slogan in the 1930s

Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible. – Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program, 1935-1943