If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.