Tucker Carlson Quotes

I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

I didn't find it difficult to live in the 'Inherent Vice' world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.

I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

In the olden days, a memoir was something written by Churchill and people like that, because they had a grand experience and considered it useful for future generations. And then it became what it became - a public purging in which other people have the chance to judge you and then forgive you, perhaps learning something from your sorry example.

I was born in the late '50s, was a child of the '60s, then the '70s, then the '80s, then the '90s, and I have mental fingers in all those pies.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography.

The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?

I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me was confused by it, and interested and turned on. Ever since, his work has meant different things to me, at different times, and I still get new meaning out of it and appreciate it, in a different way. His work is very visceral, and you can take from it what you want, in various moments of your life.