One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

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.

We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.

Logic is no answer to passion.

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.