Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.

While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

It takes just as many men to build a sturdy man, son, as it does to build a tower. You will look back on this time and remember remarkably little of it, excpt the extent to which I tried or did not try.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.