Quotes from Jann S. Wenner

There was public protest over the price of tickets because they cost from $5.00 to $7.50, with those in the front section going for $12.50. The promoters blamed the Stones

He wanted to know what I thought. It was the opening of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It was sharp and insane.

Tom Wolfe was in town and I invited him over to the house to meet Hunter. The two of them were great fans of each other, Hell's Angels and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test were almost companion books, yet these men had never met.

The first thing he said was that he had seen me give the Rolling Stones credit for the magazine's name. Bob said that he and I knew full well that it came from his song. I sputtered out my explanations, but he was adamant about it and gave me a sideways look that let me off the hook a little.

THE STONES WERE putting out a new edition of Exile on Main Street, which was another excuse for a party at our house. It's always fun to watch Keith arrive anywhere, never a quiet entrance. He's just got so much in motion on him: earrings, bracelets, rings; things twisted into his hair, headband, and hat; shirt unbuttoned; scarves, beads, and necklaces, plus a belt with a skull or something similar

Keith told me that the key to Mick was his mother.

I thought that prejudicial adjectives and liberal clichés in the reportorial copy undercut the power of the facts.

A WEEK AFTER GETTING back from Burning Man for the third time, I was in the Oval Office with Obama. He complimented me on my multicolored striped socks, saying if he weren't president, he could wear socks like mine.

The conversion of all truths into questions of power has attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false.

Stevie Winwood, on Traffic's first tour, was our first office visitor from the world of music.

HUNTER SHOT HIMSELF in the head at Owl Farm. I don't remember what time of day it was or who told me, just the old leather chair I was sitting in when I heard the news.

I was seated at the president's table next to the wife of Gabriel García Márquez. It was a Clinton talkfest

My favorite phrase those days, which I saw on a Family Dog poster, was "May the Baby Jesus Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind," which came from a Captain Beefheart record.

Clinton said he liked Arafat personally, didn't care for nor trust Netanyahu, and the only Israeli the PLO trusted was the right-wing general Ariel Sharon, their foe, but a man of his word.

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 1937–2005. Tales from a Weird and Righteous American Saga.

We chose Madonna, Courtney Love, and Tina Turner for the cover. The shoot took twelve hours and involved seventy hairdressers, stylists, makeup people, and personal assistants

I was afraid of anything that would break the threads that bound me to the kids, to the idea of family.

WE WENT TO Paul Simon's farewell concert at Madison Square Garden. He was seventy-seven; I never thought someone could retire from rock and roll. Paul's music triumphed over his stiff personality, and the show went right onto my all-time-best list.

Rolling Stone, still a hippie newspaper in San Francisco, won for its stories on Altamont and Charles Manson

Bono had grown up in a lower-class neighborhood with a "constant sense that violence was around the corner." His mother and grandfather died within days of each other, and he and his brother were raised by his father, "a house of men, and all that goes with that.

BOB DYLAN WAS in town for a run at the Beacon, a few blocks from my house, which was becoming a regular stop for performers in my age group.

IN 1992 HUNTER reappeared with a rambling outburst of violent behavior, "Fear and Loathing in Elko," set in the small Nevada desert town where we had held our secret political summit a decade earlier.

IN 1998, TOM WOLFE brought me his proposal for a new novel, A Man in Full. I didn't feel it would be right for us to try to repeat the Bonfire of the Vanities serialization.

WE HEADED TO Sun Valley for the holidays. Arnold and Maria Shriver had a house about the size of the mountain's main ski lodge.