When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

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.

She had never had a daydream that dreamed itself, like nightmares. That crawled out of her brain like a creature of the dark. A daymare.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

I'm very grateful that Barack Obama as president very much put protection of privacy on the agenda today, due to the fact of Islamist terrorism all over the world.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

I'm a perimeter player. I'm more like a Ray Allen.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.