Mike Nelson

“It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
― Hunter S. Thompson , The Rum Diary