Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy ...

It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance i...

When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army ...

In the Carolinas they say "hill people" are different from "flatlands people," and as a native Kentu...

In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers -- dropouts, failures a...

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly alwa...

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total re...

The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism abo...

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it does...

Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a tele...

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination ...

To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting th...

McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things...

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contes...

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

Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and ...

The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're tol...

A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.

How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can ge...

When the going gets weird, the weird turn professional.

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go ou...

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ...

...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.

Whatever else the Florida primary might or might not have proved, it put a definite kink in the Medi...

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this bo...

Too weird to live, too rare to die!

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...

Kill the body and the head will die.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally...

How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the ...

The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...

This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where ev...

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...

The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach… cockroach… cockroach…

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

History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history”...

What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! Peopl...

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieve...

What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out ...

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...

KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of th...

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead ...

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is th...

Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straig...

Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like w...

Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than ...

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I t...

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads,...

It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot...

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shall...

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or po...

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that ...

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Months later, when I rarely saw the Angels, I still had the legacy of the big machine -- four hundre...

From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding th...

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. ...

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at onc...

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Writing is the flip side of sex - it's only good when it's over.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both...

America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy g...

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's becau...

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high place...

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

As I said, to put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we do not strive...

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way....

We are drifting into some ugly parallels here, and if I'd written this kind of thing two years ago I...

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has brav...

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

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

No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s...

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider mysel...

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the ne...

It never got weird enough for me.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. He was forever yapping...

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter ...

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

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clu...

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

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

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the i...

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

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

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all...

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is ri...

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...