“Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope'. . . but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was politics.”

Hunter S. Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson - “Some book reviewer whose name I...” 1

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