Explore Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.