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.

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

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

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

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

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

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.