"The Sixties were an era of extreme..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson

“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.”

“and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly”

“Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.”

“It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.”

“I understand that the worst people in England at a time were ran to America, for some reason.Then slavery came and calls of aggression. But we've been there 600 years and there ain't no peace between black and whites because the cultures are different - like the Chinese and Mexicans cannot integrate: the music is different, the eating is different.”

“How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.”

“I have seen something like it happen in battle. A man was coming at me, I at him, to kill. Then came a sudden great gust of wind that wrapped out cloaks over our swords and almost over our eyes, so that we could do nothing to one another but must fight the wind itself. And that ridiculous contention, so foreign to the business we were on, set us both laughing, face to face - friends for a moment - and then at once enemies again and forever.”

“When I was young my teachers were the old.I gave up fire for form till I was cold.”

“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”