Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.