Life should not be a journey to the grave...
Myths and legends die hard in America.
North Vegas is where you go if you’re a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you’re no longer much good for business out there with the high rollers.
I may sound a little black, but I’m really pretty well adjusted.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.
There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.
To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men’s emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they’re attached to dollar signs – unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
Wake up and ponder the future.
Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach.
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.
There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.
Too weird to live, too rare to die!
Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.