For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.

Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.

It's a dangerous business, going out your door.

And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.

I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.

What is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it.