"I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." —Andy Warhol

Here's to the glamour and vanity, the sober, the heartbroken, the snow-capped mountains, the car exhaust, and the city that conditionally loved me for 8 years.

Also from Roman Polanski: "Los Angeles is the most beautiful city in the world, as long as it's seen at night and from a distance." See if you can mint one with the night sky.