San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.

Fun is not an activity, it is a state of mind.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

You see what you know!

That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.

For decades, the key question has been 'how valuable is the brand?' The key question moving forward is 'how valuable are your apps?'

Since I met him ten years ago there hasn't been a day that I didn't think of George Burns. And I didn't think of him again today.

I think it was a matter of, like, I'm not going to have my kids in these wild streets. Both my twin brother and I were in art school together.

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.