We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

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

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

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.