# Quote — Gregory Benford, In Alien Flesh

> He went to Los Angeles to do the work even though he hated the city; it was full of happy homogeneous people without structure or direction. While on the bus to work, it seemed to him Los Angeles went on long after it had already made its point.

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Book: [In Alien Flesh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh.md)
- Page: 170
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#In_Alien_Flesh_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/he-went-to-los

## More from this book

> I would have to look, try to find a bridge that would make plausible what I knew but could scarcely prove. The standards of science are austere, unforgiving—and who would have it differently? I would have to hedge, to take one step back for each two forward, to compare and suggest and contrast, always sticking close to the data. And despite what I thought I knew now, the data would have to lead, they would have to show the way.

p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/i-would-have.md)

> But the answers come when they will, one piece at a time.

p. 232 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/but-the-answers.md)

> Talkers never acted when they could talk.

p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/in-alien-flesh/talkers-never-acted.md)