I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
Hunter S. ThompsonI felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively โ for the first time in a long, long while โ by slipping my notebook into my belt and reaching down to take off my watch. The first thing to go in a street fight is your watch, and once youโve lost a few, you develop a certain instinct that lets you know when itโs time to get the thing off your wrist and into a safe pocket.
Hunter S. ThompsonHe 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. ThompsonLet us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
Hunter S. Thompson