Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search. - William McKeen

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.

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

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