Quotes from Hunter S. Thompson

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It's about as important as things get.

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.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

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

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

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

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

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

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

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.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.