The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

Mailer's Law: A thing either gets better or it costs more to run it the way it was.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

There`s a tendency for Americans, particularly the simpler you are, the more you believe in the president as the kind of person to be.

Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union by increasing armaments.

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time that enriches the experience.