Hunter S. Thompson

Quotes

• “Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who cou...”
• “But I knew it was pure masturbation, because down in my gut I wanted nothing more than a clean bed and a bright room and...”
• “How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight...”
• “Richard Nixon has never been one of my favorite people, anyway. For years I've regarded his very existence as a monument...”
• “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely r...”
• “Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells ru...”
• “The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs an...”
• “When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place d...”
• “So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can t...”
• “McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does ...”
• “How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this ...”
• “This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are reall...”
• “I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as g...”
• “Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke ...”
• “Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make...”
• “Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than Richard Nixon. For t...”
• “One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts...”
• “I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot....”
• “I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart i...”
• “The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench thro...”
• “To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point ...”
• “The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup ...”
• “Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the ou...”
• “There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer c...”
• “I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, so...”
• “Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get care...”
• “From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in ...”
• “To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about “getting things done in Washing...”
• “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavi...”
• “How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he thin...”
• “The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except ...”
• “We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacef...”
• “The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs...”
• “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...”
• “It was almost May. I knew that New York was getting warm now, that London was wet, that Rome was hot -- and I was on Vie...”
• “I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wa...”
• “Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarter...”
• “Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football f...”
• “This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, th...”
• “No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up do...”
• “On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and talking like men who ...”
• “There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at lea...”
• “Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But ...”
• “America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms a...”
• “In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: n...”
• “Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where ...”
• “Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both...”
• “The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls wi...”
• “The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about t...”
• “I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for a...”