In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIn a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIf there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAnything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThere 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. THOMPSONSome may never live, but the crazy never die.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONWe cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAvoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONLife has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONFiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONFor every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONOn some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON