In the desert, I had discovered the West of my imagination, my childhood canyon infinitely magnified. I went there for inspiration and insight. – Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning, 2014
You know you live in Phoenix when you are willing to park three blocks away because you actually found shade from a palm tree imported 300 miles from California and nurtured with water piped 250 miles from Nevada. – Author unknown
Land of extremes. Land of contrasts. Land of surprises. Land of contradictions…. That is Arizona. – Federal Writers Project, Arizona: The Grand Canyon State, 1956