Quotes from Hunter S. Thompson

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.

I am a road man for the lords of karma.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

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

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.