The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
"Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen" was a San Francisco journalist whose daily columnist/column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a brief defection to the San Francisco Examiner), and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
A Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards/special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco."
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Herb Caen on Wikipedia.I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'
There are more of them than us.
A bridge is only a bridge, a highway in the sky. The ferryboats were close to the foaming heart of the matter – something to love.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, it's there.
Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angles to San Francisco live there?
A famous city's most famous landmark.
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
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