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“you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were—the writer. I’d warned them about that.”
― Playboy, Hunter S. Thompson: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic)

“Playboy: Do you believe religious things about drugs? Thompson: No, I never have. That’s my main argument with the drug culture. I’ve never believed in that guru trip; you know, God, nirvana, that kind of oppressive, hipper-than-thou bullshit. I like to just gobble the stuff right out in the street and see what happens, take my chances, just stomp on my own accelerator. It’s like getting on a racing bike and all of a sudden you’re doing 120 miles per hour into a curve that has sand all over it and you think, “Holy Jesus, here we go,” and you lay it over till the pegs hit the street and metal starts to spark. If you’re good enough, you can pull it out, but sometimes you end up in the emergency room with some bastard in a white suit sewing your scalp back on.”
― Playboy, Hunter S. Thompson: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic)

“think Jane Fonda has done something. I could see her doing most anything. Redford’s certainly been effective in pursuing his interests. Who always sings I Left My”
― Playboy Magazine Editors, Marlon Brando: The Playboy Interview

“The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up. Everybody’s too scared to deal with children all the time, so we reject them and send them away and torture them. The ones who survive are the conformists—their bodies are cut to the size of the suits—the ones we label good. The ones who don’t fit the suits either are put in mental homes or become artists.”
― Playboy, John Lennon and Yoko Ono: The Playboy Interview

“injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, for we are tied together in a garment of mutuality.”
― Playboy Magazine Editors, Martin Luther King: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic)