A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
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.
Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
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.