Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Walk tall. Kick ass. Learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget that you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.”

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

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

Buy the ticket, take the ride

Myths & 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 men’s reality. Weird heroes & mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of "the rat race" is not yet final.

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.

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested. Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.

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 men’s reality. Weird heroes & mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of “the rat race” is not yet final.

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.

Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube.

It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

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

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

In a closed society where everyone is guilty, the only crime is getting caught

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.

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

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards; to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the 'good life', whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

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.