9 Quotes by William McKeen

Creating art allows us to beat the odds and find immortality, without having to do the whole Doctor Faustus thing. Though Brian Wilson and Mike Love no longer collaborate and Carl and Dennis Wilson are gone, they are all still together on the radio late at night, where they join voices and are young and golden and beautiful forever.

Nothing infuriates an academic more than a talented and successful colleague.

Life as Hunter Thompson’s mother was no weenie roast.

I didn’t read this book – I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.

This writing wasn’t painful. It was like being high.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn’t sound right, something you’d want to change. You’ll leave the page untouched.

This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

Samuel Johnson: “He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.