Herb Caen

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

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy.