Raoul Duke Quotes

To them the appearance of the Hell’s Angels must have seemed like a wonderful publicity stunt. In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome: Frank Sinatra, Alexander King, Elizabeth Taylor, Raoul Duke... they have that extra “something”.

Don’t go near that elevator—that’s just what they want us to do…trap us in a steel box and take us down to the basement!” − Raoul Duke, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas “Please, please I don’t want my soul tethered to the Net, my mind impregnated by the Data Stream, or my body enslaved by the Grid. I am a Homo Sapiens, dammit, and I can be a Trog and live in the soup if I want to!” − Pagan Paul

[My cinematic characters are] all still there [in my psyche], which on some level can't be the healthiest thing in the world. . . I always picture it as this chest of drawers in your body—Ed Wood is in one, the Hater is in another, Scissorhands is in another. They stick with you. Hunter [S. Thompson]s certainly in there—you know, Raoul Duke. The weirdest thing is that I can access them. They're still very elose to the surface.” Johnny Depp, to Patti Smith, “The Crowded Mind of Johnny Depp,” January 2011