Quotes About Excess

The Roaring Eighties were a new gilded age, where winning was celebrated at all costs.

Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant? A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

extravagant.

Most of them were champions at spoiling good food.

And in a way, what could be more rock and roll than lying around on deck being served caviar and champagne off a surfboard? If Keith Moon had lived long enough, he'd have loved it. Although come to that, he might have tried to push the mini-golf buggy into the pool.

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

You took too much man, too much, too much.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.

Las Vegas is the savage heart of the American Dream.

Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in the middle of the crowd a giant Swede wearing a blue jockstrap was blowing long blasts on a trumpet.

OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay when I'm in better condition. Tell Hinckle he'd better take some liver exercises...and also to get braced for my wild cards, which don't always mix well with grapefruit juice and burbon. - To Peter Collier 10/11/1967

Right," I said. "But first we need the car. And after that, the cocaine. And then the tape recorder, for special music, and some Acapulco shirts.

Right," I said. "But first we need the car. And after that, the cocaine. And then the tape recorder, for special music, and some Acapulco

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers … and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.

In a 2002 interview with Science Fiction Weekly magazine, when asked: Excession is particularly popular because of its copious detail concerning the Ships and Minds of the Culture, its great AIs: their outrageous names, their dangerous senses of humour. Is this what gods would actually be like? Banks replied: If we're lucky.

Like many who have little to say, he said too much, interrupting without courtsey and favoring with the benefit of his wisdom those who did not desire it.

Yo tengo una teoría: el exceso de conocimiento desequilibra la mente. Se hace un esfuerzo tan grande para adquirir conocimientos que no queda espacio para el sentido común. De La cuarta verdad

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

the moustaches on the men were just a lot of moustaches.

The world is not enough.

The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.