The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.

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.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.