If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old… — 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
How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. — 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
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any… — 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