I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONLife has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONOn some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONHuman beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONSleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONSome may never live, but the crazy never die.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONSo we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAs 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. 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. THOMPSONI hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONNot a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI’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. THOMPSONLiberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON