Explore Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly

I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, just as curiosity is to a kitten.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.

Good people drink good beer.

All we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.

We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.

As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.