Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

There are characteristics of Central Florida you don't see anywhere else. It's quite beautiful.

We ought to be bragging about Florida!

The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.

I'm from Florida, which I consider more southern. You cannot put Florida in the same category as California or New York.

Florida, bro. It's different.

In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'

My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

I kinda like Florida. It's hot as hell, but we moved to Tallahassee, which is so close to Georgia. It really wasn't Florida the way people think of Florida. It wasn't south Florida. But you could still easily drive to Panama City Beach and get a little bit of Redneck Riviera if you want that. Get some airbrushed T-shirts on, and you're done.

Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

Montreal is more Canadian and more British than Toronto. Toronto is more Canadian and more British than Winnipeg. Why? Because at Quebec thanks to the preponderance of the French language, you are better protected from the American invasion ...

I never spoke to this many Yankees at one time.

In Belgium there are Walloons and Flemings.

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

I thought, from watching TV and stuff, that America was one place. They only show you L.A. and New York. They don't warn you about Iowa.

Midwestern Jews is a different community, is a different thing than New York Jews, L.A. Jews. It's just different. It's the whole Midwestern thing.

It was great to go to Stanford. Until that point, I'd spent my whole life in southeast Michigan, working for General Motors. I was in a different part of the country. People didn't know what General Motors was, didn't care, or if they did, they might not have had a favorable impression. I saw people driving nondomestic vehicles.

I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.

There are so many colorful characters in Florida. There's a lot of money, development - not all of it good - and corruption.

K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.

I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.

I am from Florida, so I didn't 'grow up' on Wu-Tang.

A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.

You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she's traditionally lived in the South.