
I saw Hunter at Stanford [at a college speaking engagement]. I was backstage with him and he was in such a state. Agitated, absolutely paranoid. That was the day that I understood that this just wasn’t a part of the persona. That was serious pain. I asked him about it. "Why do you do that t these colleges? You just drive people nuts." He said, "cause I'm terrified." -David Burgin "We beat them like stupid rats. We beat them like dogs. They had a bad case." … Thompson, beaming as he sped out of Aspen, stopped first to load his car with bear and then decided a more dramatic celebration was in order. Pulling a pistol from his shoulder holster he fired a volley of blanks at anyone who approached him until he was surprisingly silenced by an elderly woman who order4ed him not to shoot at her. -Sam Kiley, Times Newspapers Limited, The Sunday Times June 3, 1990 These drugs are gonna get me. All of this shits gonna get me, even these peacocks, and these eighty speakers, and these fires and these excesses… and this weed-boy, that’s god weed. Its gonna get me someday, but we don’t know when, do we? -Hunter Thompson, quoted by David Felton One day I was going to play golf with Hunter and Buffett in Colorado. They were taking along guns to shoot gophers with while they were playing. I decided I didn’t want to be isolated out on a golf course with Hunter and a 9-millimeter Walther. -Jim Harrison I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as sitting at a desk writing. -Hunter Thompson, quoted by William McKeen This information comes from the book Hunter the strange and savage life of Hunter S. Thompson by E. Jean Carroll