Ralph Steadman

"Americans love DON'T. Thou shalt not. The bedrock of received knowledge - the Ten Commandments. The God fearing pioneers who still had a long way to go. GO! DONT GO! GO. FUCK YOU GOD! We're on our way…"

"What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agen…"

"I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved."

"Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth."

"It was a carefree period and we took to it like genuine lowlife."

"Those Fear and Loathing drawings were only possible for me because of the America's Cup six months earlier, which injected the the drawings with the eerie sense of being there to record the sensations…"

"Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do."

"Maybe he is the Mark Twain of the late twentieth century. Time will sort the bastard out and I leave it to others more qualified than me to assess and appraise his monumental literary legacy."