Hunter S. Thompson

We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo to the end.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

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

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

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.

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

Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.

He who makes a beast of himself relieves himself the pain of being a man.

As your attorney i advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Buy the ticket take the Ride

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

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.

A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!"

If 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...

You can always turn your back on a person, but you can never turn your back on a drug... especially when it's waving a hunting knife in your eyes.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

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

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.

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.