Wow.
He was a weird, fucked up, old man.
"Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist," Thompson told the AP in 2003. "You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it."
Don't know what else to say. Going to write poems now, and listen to his Ode to Jack Kerouac.
Link Courtesy of Warren Ellis.