I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world.

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

There was the emptiness of space I was afraid to fall into, but the only real fear I’d ever actually had was to dive into the emptiness inside of myself.

For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction.

To desist from a continual hurt is to discover purpose

Please just tell me where you are.His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain.

The public buys the most at the top and the least at the bottom.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

Virtue which shuns, the day.

Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

[Barack Obama and Susan Rice] simply do not want any hearings on Benghazi, and they wouldn't be able to avoid it if she's up there as secretary of state.