William McKeen Quotes

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.

To create a balance of power and pedigree in the house, Hunter sent five bucks off to an ad he'd seen in the back pages of a magazine and received his mail-order doctor-of-divinity degree. He began referring to himself as Dr. Thompson and punctuated remarks with his afterword: "I am, after all, a doctor." Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.

But he discovered his success later, when he began to write just like he talked.

Some of the locals began to think that maybe Hunter was getting out of control.

Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.

Hunter couldn't stop working. McCumber remembered Hunter working nine days without sleep.

Now the ashes drifted, as Hunter must have known they would, back toward the guests standing in front of the viewing pavilion. As the guests stood holding their glasses, the ash floated and settled into their drinks.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

In these letters to Ridley, Hunters Gonzo style began to rear its head. One of the characteristics of the style Hunter developed was his preoccupation of getting the story. In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.

Barger thought Hunter provoked Junkie George so that the beating could be used as a gimmick to promote the book.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.

His legions of stoned admirers probably really thought he took a hundred hits of acid before sitting down to write. But the craftsmanship those close to him saw as he agonized over his words spoke to how much went into making it look like a breeze.

The lifestyle of the character he had created had consumed him.

Putting Hunter in context was tough.

His journalism was usually about journalism: no matter what he started out off writing about, he ended up writing about Hunter Thompson trying to cover a story.