A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

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.'

The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.