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've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography.… — 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
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like f***ing — which is fun only… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting… — 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
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are… — 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
Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid… — 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