When you make a bet, you're saying something.

I'm good at reading people.

The point is that it looks like gambling because the language of the game is money.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Divorce transforms habit into drama.

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.