Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done
       too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived
       like a Prussian gambler--sweating worse than Bryant on some nights and
       drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and
       these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines.
                  -- Hunter Thompson, "Bad Nerves in Fat City",