We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
Hunter S. ThompsonAn outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
Hunter S. ThompsonHistory is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
Hunter S. Thompson