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.

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

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

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.

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

The best investment shall be to find your soul.

Depths of Friendship...under fathoms deepof dark and bitter coldan eerie oscillationreverberated brash and bold...

Prayer is our voice

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

I know there is a certain amount of negativity I have to deal with.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.