He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way heโd walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
Hunter S. ThompsonI had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
Hunter S. ThompsonHappy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words donโt have much faith in them and I am no exception โ especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because theyโre scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.
Hunter S. ThompsonIgnore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.
Hunter S. Thompson