Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place..

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found..

I have no idea what a high school party looks like. I was just with my friend, and we were walking down Venice and there was this gathering of people….

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand..

Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy..

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing..

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place..

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you!.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?.

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae….

There were two practical reasons we moved to Venice. One was that there was an artists movement and a countercultural movement. Lots of people we mig….

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a w….

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors..

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes..

It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size de….

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy..

I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accou….

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival..

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster..

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen..