Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Las Vegas makes Reno seem like your friendly neighborhood grocery store. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
A little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
North Vegas is where you go if you're a hooker turning forty and the syndicate men on the strip decide you're no… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Las Vegas is not the kind of town where you want to drive down Main Street aiming a black bazooka-looking instrument at… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“. . . bush-league sex compared to L.A.; pasties here —total naked public humping in L.A. . . . Las Vegas is… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“I wondered if maybe this kind of thing happened all the time in Vegas -- cars full of late-arriving passengers screeching desperately… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is… — 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
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something… — 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
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg… — 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
![“["Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas"] is a very hard book to translate to film because there's so much interior monologue. The what if factor. I tried to write it cinematically and let the dialogue carry it but I forgot about the interior monologue. It's kind of hard to show what's going on in the…” quote by Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/398/hunter-s-thompson-278_book_fear-loathing-in-las-vegas-is-a-very-har_780146.jpg)
