You eat the burger but you don't want the slaughterhouse next door to where you live.

High-end boutiques aren't putting small staple stores out of business. What's putting small staple stores out of business is formula retail.

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

I think that chain stores in general are really super depressing and I think it really sucks the life out of a city such as San Francisco.

If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

Never believe the lines on your hands that predict your future. Because people who don't have also have future.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

A lot of people are quick to take negative suggestions from others, but slow to act on a positive advice. Yet, they wonder why their lives are very complicated.

Live your lives in such a way that you would be sure you are productive, effective and satisfied on all levels.

Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled".

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps