If I'd Written All The Truth I Knew For The Past Ten Years, About 600 People - Including Me - Would Be Rotting In Prison Cells From Rio To Seattle Today.

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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about
600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from
Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous
commodity in the context of professional journalism.
-- Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939), journalist
-- Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl, Rolling Stone (Feburary 15, 1973)

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