I’m sure I must have sounded like a fool and a borderline psychotic most of that year, when I talked to people who thought they knew who and where they were at the time … but looking back, I see that if I wasn’t right, at least I wasn’t wrong, and in that context I was forced to learn from my confusion … which took awhile, and there’s still no proof that what I finally learned was right, but there’s not a hell of a lot of evidence to show that I’m wrong either.
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-76 (via notaroja)