Saul Abdullah

“NOT EVERYBODY is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal—like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Better Than Sex

“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

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

“They were professionally deviant, but they had a few things in common. They depended, mostly from habit, on newspapers and magazines for the bulk of their income; their lives were geared to long chances and sudden movement; and they claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary