"Beyond the last bivouac, the last sea-bell and the last bar, the ordinary Milwaukee Avenue moon of home shone like a memory for me of people whose peace had always been one more war to go."

- from Nelson Algren's introduction to The Neon Wildnerness, in this 1993 edition:

The Neon Wilderness is out of print, and although there is a version available on The Internet Archive, the introduction by Algren doesn't appear in that edition.