Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.