Explore Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Reality itself is too twisted.

Don't judge your taco by its price

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

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 clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Kill the body and the head will die.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.

It was the kind of town that made you feel like Humphrey Bogart: you came in on a bumpy little plane, and, for some mysterious reason, got a private room with a balcony overlooking the town and the harbor; then you sat there and drank until something happened.

Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.