It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I still feel needles in my back when I think about all the horrible disasters that would have befallen me if I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was… — 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
