““Don’t go near that elevator—that’s just what they want us to do…trap us in a steel box and take us down to the basement!” − Raoul Duke, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas “Please, please I don’t want my soul tethered to the Net, my mind impregnated by the Data Stream, or my body enslaved by the Grid. I am a Homo Sapiens, dammit, and I can be a Trog and live in the soup if I want to!” − Pagan Paul””
![“Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! [N.B. this is obviously a humorous paraphrase]” quote by Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/965/friedrich-nietzsche-15_dark-night_being-human-is-a-complicated-gig-so-give_1590439.jpg)
![“[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.” quote by Karen Kijewski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fb/karen-kijewski-52069_character_on-las-vegas-the-city-that-never-sleeps_41614.jpg)