Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

I wondered if maybe this kind of thing happened all the time in Vegas — cars full of late-arriving passengers screeching desperately across the runway, dropping off wild eyed Samoans clutching mysterious canvas bags who would sprint onto planes at the last possible second and then roar off into the sunrise.

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.