Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.
Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!
They claimed no allegiance to any flag and valued no currency but luck and good contacts.
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.
I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
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.