William McKeen Quotes

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.

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.

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

To the generation of young political reporters, Hunter was Mount Rushmore, a living god on earth.

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

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

For a man complaining about the agony of celebrity, he wasn't doing anything to stop perpetuating his image as America's premier outlaw journalist.

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.

He kept growing. He thought it was very important to keep growing all your life.

He wrote his mother that he had begun to hate the sight of his typewriter.

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.

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