For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.