"One of the few ways I can..." - Quote by Hunter S Thompson
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.
More by Hunter S Thompson
“Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!”
“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”
“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.”
More on Writing
“Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.”
“In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.”
“Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.”
More on Understanding
“Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.”
“Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)”
“Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.”