There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There...

Raoul Duke:
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. And that, I think, was the handle. That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense, we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum. We were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west and with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high-water mark, that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back