Arizona looks like a battle on Mars. – Author unknown

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

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

You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley. – Author unknown