I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I’m bound to go to heaven because I’ve already served my time in hell.” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I blew the horn a few times, hoping to call up an iguana. Get the buggers moving. They were out there, I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The difference between the student radicals and the Hell's Angels is that the students are rebelling against the past, while the Angels… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of… — 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'm sure I must have sounded like a fool and a borderline psychotic most of that year, when I talked to people… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like an old… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a tolerable level.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I have explained many times that I am, by Profession, a Gambler -- not some jock-sniffing nerd or a hired human squawk-box… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I’ve spent enough time in jackrabbit country to know that most of them lead pretty dull lives . . . No wonder… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“It had been a bad trip … fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like… — 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
