Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Everyone crashes Some get back on Some don't Some can't.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

Wake up and ponder the future

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Today's pig is tomorrows bacon!

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.

It never got weird enough for me.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.

I didn't know Johnny Depp could act until he played me.

The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people.

There is no story unless you've written it.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.

I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.