Hunter S. Thompson
It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.Collection: Men
Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.Collection: Good Mood
The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.Collection: Running
A little bit of this town goes a very long way.Collection: Las Vegas
Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.Collection: Country
Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.Collection: Vegas
Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American DreamCollection: Dream
The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in lifeCollection: Fear
[Polo Is My Life] is what's called a sex book - you know, sex, drugs and rock and roll. It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains. He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco. Most of my stories are tales of anguish, stress and grief.Collection: Falling In Love
["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.Collection: Jobs
I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.Collection: Wicked
Who knows? 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 & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.Collection: Growing Up
Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reachCollection: Mexican
Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.Collection: Dimensions
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.Collection: Country
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.Collection: Men
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.Collection: People
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.Collection: Vegas
That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.Collection: Children
Most of my friends are into strange things I don't really understand - and with a few shameful exceptions I wish them all well. Who am I, after all, to tell some friend he shouldn't change his name to Oliver High, get rid of his family, and join a Satanism cult in Seattle? Or to argue with another friend who wants to buy a single-shot Remington Fireball so he can go out and shoot cops from a safe distance?Collection: Distance
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to FearCollection: Hunters
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.Collection: Fall
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.Collection: Christian
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.Collection: Writing
You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.Collection: Fun
Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all...It was pitiful...I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him 'Mr. President,' and then I felt ashamed.Collection: Jesus
1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and quick to sway. 3) If asked if you care about the world's problems, look deep into the eyes of he who asks, he will never ask you again. 4) Never give your real name. 5) If ever asked to look at yourself, don't look. 6) Never do anything the person standing in front of you can't understand. 7) Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.Collection: Real
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.Collection: Sleep
As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.Collection: Funny
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.Collection: Men
The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.Collection: Strong
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.Collection: Life
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.Collection: Snow
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.Collection: Law
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.Collection: Evil
There is no story unless you’ve written it.Collection: Stories
The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Thought Provoking
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.Collection: Real
We can’t stop here, this is bat country!Collection: Country
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun – for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax – This won’t hurt.Collection: Fun
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don’t mind admitting it.Collection: Real
If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.Collection: Fun
If you have half a story and you don’t know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.Collection: Stories
You can’t hoard fun. It has no shelf life.Collection: Fun
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That’s where the story is going and how it’s going to end. Or else you’ll go off in a hundred different directions.Collection: Stories
In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you’re not. Love it or leave it.Collection: Country
It’s much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.Collection: Fun
Any candidate who’d offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon – someone with a different concept of the presidency – could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.Collection: Real