A quote to show Hunter S Thompson's fear or loathing of the American Dream/Vegas?

Question

I know that there is one somewhere!

Just can't find it.

I need a quote I can analyze to prove that Hunter had a lot of fear and loathing towards Vegas - Which I am arguing is a metaphor for the old American Dream of the 60's.

Answer 1

"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip—the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted."

Answer 2

"Who are these people? These faces!... They look like caricatures of used-car dealers from Dallas. But they're real. And, sweet Jesus, there are a h**l of a lot of them... Still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the last-minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas Casino"

"Some people say they like [Las Vegas] -- but then some people like Nixon, too. He would have made a perfect Mayor for this town, with John Mitchell as Sheriff and Agnew as Master of Sewers"

any quote comparing the people in Vegas to reptiles.

Answer 3

"You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning . . . And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave . . . So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."