What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life.

You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.