Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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.

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

I 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.

I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

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.