A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

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

The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

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.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

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