Explore Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

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.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

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.

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

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.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.