Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

Good people drink good beer.

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

Don't judge your taco by its price

[Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an elegant rockpile of a monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can't reach.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.