black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Hunter S. Thompson

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Anxiety Day Feeling Happiness
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

People Politics Power Way
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Choice Circumstance Himself Man Procrastination
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Distance Feeling Myself Reality
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Depression Mad Truth Work
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Ability Day Important Live Lonely Strong Writing
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Law Myself Problem Taste
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Comparison Music Myself Word Work
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Important Information Understand Yourself
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Black Light Moon Naked Need
I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Happiness Heart Mindset Respect See Yourself
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes