These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThese things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAll the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAnything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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. THOMPSONI was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONFiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe 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. THOMPSONI damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONMy greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
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. THOMPSONFreedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONI miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONThe only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONAll we have to do is get out and vote, while it’s still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONDon’t judge your taco by its price.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON