He never evaded, but voluntarily confessed those "presumptuous gestures". For example, in his early days of obscurity and lack of money, he wrote to American President Johnson to apply for a job and asked Faulkner, a Nobel Prize in Literature winner he had never met before, for money. Besides drinking and taking drugs, Thompson also loves guns and gunpowder. Once he fired three shots at one of his books and gave him to a good friend as an autograph.

Thompson's personality is extremely arrogant. He drinks and takes drugs. One of his last wishes was to fill the gun bore with ashes and bombard them. Before committing suicide, he seldom invited his son and grandson to his farm. At the last minute, he was still on the phone with his wife, talking calmly and shooting himself. He lived to 67 years old, not old and weak, but many friends said that he would commit suicide sooner or later. "He may have died earlier, but he made up for it with quality rather than how long he lived ... It is difficult to define whether his report was incited for personal purposes or just irresponsible behavior after drunkenness." This is an editor's evaluation of Thompson's lifestyle and writing skills when he was a newspaper writer. Just like Thompson handed in a few scattered words to fill in the blanks because he couldn't hand in the manuscript on time, his careless action contributed to the birth of "absurd news", and his uninhibited and bohemian style also added a strong determination to the history of American literature.