“There is no logic to San Francisco . . . a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It’s the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons. Why not pink, purple, rainbow, gold? What color for a biker bar on 16th, near the highway? Plum. Plum.”

—Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 2001.