"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive ...' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about a hundred miles an hour with the top down to Las Vegas. And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'"
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/...834732018.html :
One of his most famous lines was: "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
In recent years, Thompson had started to speculate about why he wasn't dead already. "The fact that I'm not dead is sort of puzzling to me," he said recently. "It's sort of an awkward thing to deal with."