“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived a...” — Hunter S. Thompson Quote

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

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.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit.