Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Worship is not love.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

Every football player knows when his time is up.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.