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.

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

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

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

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

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.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.