"San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening"

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"

"I don't believe in ghosts, but I am afraid of them"

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts"

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"

"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work"

"Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again"

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury"

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life"

"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days"

"From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are"