"I wouldn't
recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always
worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson
Born:
July 18, 1937 or 1939
(depending on the source)
Dr.
Gonzo and the Professor:
"Thompson
did not disappoint. We did not have much time together before the speech. He
walked in and introduced himself, and shook hands like a normal human
being. He was soft-spoken and polite, even if he did mumble a bit. He was
certainly not the mad-dog reporter I had half-expected.
We sat in a lounge near the stage and talked
about my words of introduction and the format of the talk. It was a rather
bluenose college, and so he would not be allowed his usual bottle of Wild
Turkey on sate. Yet he needed something to keep his fires idling before
facing the audience. He unzipped the athletic bag — his only luggage —
parted the newspapers and clothes within, and pulled out a 'live'
Lowenbrau.
It
was open and foaming on his clothes. He quickly guzzled the last of the
beer, then tossed the bottle across the room into the garbage can. 'Let's
go,' he said"
— Dr. William McKeen about his
encounter with Hunter
"If there's
anything I've learned, it's that you can turn your back on a person, but
you can never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a
razor sharp hunting knife in front of you."
— Hunter S. Thompson
"We had two bags of Grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five
sheets of
high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a
whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers....
also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of
raw ether, and two dozen amyls ... not that we needed all that for the
trip, but once you get locked in a serious drug collection, the tendency
is to push it as far as you can..."
— Hunter S. Thompson
recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always
worked for me."
He
walked in and introduced himself, and shook hands like a normal human
being. He was soft-spoken and polite, even if he did mumble a bit. He was
certainly not the mad-dog reporter I had half-expected.
there's
anything I've learned, it's that you can turn your back on a person, but
you can never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a
razor sharp hunting knife in front of you."
of
high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a
whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers....
also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of
raw ether, and two dozen amyls ... not that we needed all that for the
trip, but once you get locked in a serious drug collection, the tendency
is to push it as far as you can..."