Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

More from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

• This place is giving me the Fear.
• We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive....' And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
• I wouldn't recommend alcohol and drugs to anyone. But they have always worked for me.
• So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?