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

And whether he wanted to be or not, he was famous.

The Dream obsessed him ... but what was it? Was it Horatio Alger, rags to riches, the idea that you could start with nothing and end up rolling naked in stacks of hundreds? Or was it a dream of freedom? Personal freedom...or the concept of freedom that the founders brought into the whole world?

Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.