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

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

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

God! I loove this city!

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

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.

The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.