The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

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

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

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

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

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.

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.

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

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

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.

Logic is no answer to passion.

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

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

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

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

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you.

The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

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

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

The only greatness for man is immortality.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.

Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Immortality Device has been tested and researched by medical researchers all over the world from time to time. They email me and told me what they found. I post their results sometimes on my site.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.