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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share
