Ocupation: Journalist
Life: July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005
Birthday: July 18
Death: February 20
I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I had permanently moved to San Francisco and rented a big house, joined the company dole, become national-affairs editor for some upstart magazinethat was the plan around 1967. But that would have meant going to work on a regular basis, like nine to five, with an officeI had to pull out.
source: Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.149, Univ. Press of Mississippi
topic: Thinking, Editors, San Francisco, Big Houses, Upstart