Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)

Quotes

• 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.