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The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

Las Vegas: all the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato. – Jason Love

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything. – Jan Morris

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth. – Hunter S. Thompson

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money. – Steve Wynn

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs. – Tom Wolfe

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble — and you go to strip clubs. – Scott Caan

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. – Jeff Candido and Jason Hoff, advertising slogan written for the Las Vegas Conven

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers. – Sarah Vowell

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. – Steven Wright

Las Vegas — my favorite desert mirage. – Val Saintsbury

For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition. – Tammy Bloemzaken

The difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City is the difference between getting conned by a beautiful call girl and getting mugged by a crack head. – Drew Carey

Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money. – Jonathan Clements