If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers. — 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
It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die. — 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
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
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
The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people. — 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
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
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
That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I… — 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
Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in… — 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
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
“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
