What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.

But cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

Out of about 150 clients, we've had two or three who called and are buying houses and needed to get to some of their money.

If someone had been holding the line on keeping houses intact, Pleasant Hill would be viewed as a gem. You'd have a whole different set of people living here.

Trump can be damned to all hell with his enclosed little world in which no thought is possible. But it's the encouraging of half the people of America and many more besides to hate words, hate what words can do, hate thought, hate the liberal, the sophisticated, the metropolitan. It's anger-making.