Las Vegas is Everyman’s cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor’s orgy is now a democratic institution…. “Topless Pizza Lunch.”
ALISTAIR COOKE, America
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any sport but their own.
SIR ALISTAIR COOKE, The Marvellous Mania: Alistair Cooke on Golf