Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

You'd be surprised at the things people will do in order to get their names or pictures in the paper.

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

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

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

Life is beautiful and living is pain.

He wandered into the Newsroom and asked for a job the same way he’d walk into a barbershop and ask for a haircut, and with no more idea of being turned down.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

They're gonna make it look like suicide. I know how those bastards think.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.

The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

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

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

I never claimed to be anything more than a nice guy and an athlete.

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers.

You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.

Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places.

The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.