We're right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo! And somebody's giving booze to these goddamn things! — Hunter S. Thompson

"Even a goddamn were-wolf is entitled to legal counsel..."

After West Point and the Priesthood, LSD must have seemed entirely logical to him...

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.