1974 HST Interview with Craig Vetter of...
Playboy: Your journalistic style has been attacked by some critics - most notably, the Columbia Journalism Review - as partly commentary, partly fantasy, and partly the ravings of someone too long into drugs.
Thompson: Well, fuck the Columbia Journalism Review. They don't pay my rent. That kind of senile gibberish reminds me of all those people back in the early Sixties who were saying, "This guy Dylan is giving Tin-Pan Alley a bad name - hell, he's no musician. He can't even carry a tune." Actually, it's kind of a compliment when people like that devote so much energy to attacking you.
Jun 17th