The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

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.