"The reason you should go to Las Vegas is because, for only the second time, the second time, ever, they have rebuilt …"

"[On his 50-year long marriage to his wife Shakira] [W]e went to Vegas for my 40th birthday, and we got married. It wa…"

"Las Vegas is Everyman’s cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign …"

"Las Vegas is a three-ring circus with a hangover."

"Shoot, a fellow could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

"Las Vegas is in front of them and then all around them and everything is lit up like they’re inside a pinball game. A…"

"Saturday midnight...Memories of this night are extremely hazy. All I have, for guide-pegs, is a pocketful of keno car…"

"Sympathy? Not for me. No mercy for a criminal freak in Las Vegas. This place is like the army: the shark ethic prevai…"

"Each city is an archetype rather than a prototype, an exaggerated example from which to derive lessons for the typica…"

"Las Vegas is more like Hollywood than Hollywood, because the money is changing hands right out front. Committed to ve…"