Hunter S. Thompson

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

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

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

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

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.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.

You can’t play city rules when you live in a jungle.

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.