I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.