Jann S. Wenner blogs about Hunter S. Thompson in a piece called "Hunter S Thompson Was My Brother In Arms"
“Hunter knew an amazing number of people; he was open and friendly to most strangers; he was charismatic and compelling—to a fault, truly—and he attracted and held sway with more good, close friends than most of us have.” — Jann S. Wenner
“Man, all you knew about electric guitars is that they were loud...And they had a high tone, like I could sound like Chuck Berry and that’s all I cared.” — Mike Bloomfield
“I've played in places where old colored women in their sixties have lifted their dresses in front of me with nothing on underneath. Man, I've seen it; I've seen gusty shit.” — Mike Bloomfield
“Whenever my dad got drunk he’d come up to me and say. ‘Look son, you know, looks aren’t everything.’ ” — Pete Townshend
“One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were...” — John Lennon
“If I could be a fuckin’ fisherman I would.” — John Lennon
“When the acid tests were going on, everyone was getting real high, everyone knew... that it was cosmic.” — Jerry Garcia
“I don’t think George Bush sits around and thinks about stuff I sit around and think about - all this stuff y’all call policy-wonk stuff.” — Bill Clinton
“I have fought more damn battles here for more things than any president has in 20 years...” — Bill Clinton
“The older I get, the less important feeding my vanity becomes.” — Barack Obama
Jann S. Wenner introduces Wolfe as he is bestowed with the Creative Excellence Award by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
“On November 9, 1966, John Lennon climbed to the top of a ladder in the Indica Gallery in London and looked up at a framed paper attached to the ceiling. He peered at it, using a magnifying glass affixed to one side, and saw a single word inscribed in tiny letters: YES.” — Jann S. Wenner
“Being vice president meant strengthening Bill Clinton’s hand in meetings, where we’d do a good cop-bad cop routine.” — Al Gore
“Osama bin Laden’s best weapon against us has been our own policies.” — Jann S. Wenner
“You know... that’s really the way to do a recording — in a peaceful, relaxed setting — in somebody’s basement. With the windows open... and a dog lying on the floor.” — Bob Dylan
“We are quickly closing in on what looks an awful lot like the Vietnamization of the Iraq War.” — Bruce Springsteen
“You know ‘A Boy Named Sue’? That was me, the kid who’s beaten up by macho guys, but in the end becomes the toughest man.” — Bono
“In the beginning, we had no idea what we were doing.” — Jann S. Wenner
“Ahmet looked like a suave, wealthy and titled combination of Oriental pasha and the Wizard of Oz.” — Jann S. Wenner
“It is a mistake to think of the climate crisis as one in a list of issues that will define our future. It is the issue.” — Al Gore