Quotes from book
Fear and Loathing in America

Name: Fear and Loathing in America
Author: Hunter S. Thompson

A compilation of letters written between 1968 and 1976, sent from the author to his friends, enemies, editors and creditors, including Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut. The letters are an eywitness account of political and social history in America.

“I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a raving beast. For me, that week in Chicago was far worse than the worst bad acid trip I'd even heard rumors about. It permanently altered my brain chemistry…”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in America

Comment on the protest activity at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, as quoted in "The Doctor Is In" by Curtis Wilkie, in The Boston Globe Magazine (7 February 1988), p. 16
As quoted in the editors note by Douglas Brinkley, in Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (2000), p. xvi ISBN 0747553459
1980s
Variant: I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

“We disagree so violently on almost everything that it's a real pleasure to drink with him. If nothing else, he's absolutely honest in his lunacy”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in America

and I've found, during my admittedly limited experience in political reporting, that power & honesty very rarely coincide.
Comments on Pat Buchanan in a letter to Garry Wills (17 October 1973); published in Fear and Loathing in America (2000) ISBN 0747549648
1970s