Apologizing — a very desperate habit — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
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