Herb Caen Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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