Quotes from Hunter S. Thompson

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

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.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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

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.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

Good people drink good beer.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

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.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

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.

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.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

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

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

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

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

Life is beautiful and living is pain.