They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.

Las Vegas is the most honest fake city in the world.

Blessed be the slot players for theirs is the hope of a better day dawning.

I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account.

He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.That, or it broke them.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve.

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

He's the game all right.

The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims.

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

A lot of people like cats. Take the Pope, for example: I read recently that he was a cat-oholic!