I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

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

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