Hunter S. Thompson

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

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.

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.

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.

If you're going to be crazy you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

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

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.

You better take care of me Lord if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

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

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.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

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

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.

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 didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

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

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

When the going gets weird the weird turn pro.

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.

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.

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