Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

“Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”

“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”

“There he goes. One of Gods own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

“America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.”

“You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.”

“Freedom is something that dies unless its used”

“Fear is just another word for ignorance”

“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most mens reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of the rat race is not yet final.”

“There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.”

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die”

“You better take care of me Lord, if you dont youre gonna have me on your hands.”

“Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there are a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning. Still humping the American dream.”

“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”

“In a closed society where everybodys guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didnt entirely conquer -- he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.”

“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”

“I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.”