It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image