Quotes from Hunter S. Thompson

Leave me out of it I said, I came here to drink

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting 'Holy shit, what a ride!

You bought the ticket, now take the ride.

Nigdy nie mia?em zbyt du?o czasu na zastanawianie si?, ale czu?em, ?e moje instynkty by?y s?uszne.

No one HAS to do something he doesn't want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that's what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You'll have lots of company.

The realities were already fixed; the illness was understood to be terminal, and the energies of The Movement were long since aggressively dissipated by the rush to self-preservation.

As the Siamese says: Pea rattles loud in empty head.

Buy the ticket take the ride.

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

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

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world

Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

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

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

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.