The most consistent and ultimately damaging failure of political journalism in America (is that it) has its roots in the clubby/cocktail personal… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work… — 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
