Herb Caen Quotes

One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

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

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

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.

There are more of them than us.

The number of foggy days over the city is never reported, reportedly. But take it from me— there's enough to satisfy everyone, and dissatisfy somebody.

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

Frisco”—a violation of local custom that, as Herb Caen had impatiently explained for many years, was committed only by clueless rubes.

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

the San Francisco Chronicle and columnist Herb Caen being the family favorites.

HERB CAEN WAS born in Sacramento, California, a town that combined all the glamour of a farm fair with the dazzle of a state franchise board hearing.

How…salacious. “Did you write that?” “Nope, an old-time-y journalist named Herb Caen did.” Byron clinked his glass against hers and then tossed back the shot. She