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

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

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.

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.

We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.

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.