It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It might be a little rough on some people for a while, but I think it's the only way to deal with… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
People think I watch TV too much, but they are wrong. There is a huge difference between merely "watching" TV and learning… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left… — 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
He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of… — 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
It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still… — 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 is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people anyway. For years I've regarded his existence as a monument to all… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm not a liberal, by the way.I believe I have every right to have guns. I just bought another huge weapon. A… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every… — 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
