The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.

I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.

I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick?