The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean… — 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
