Quotes About Author

I'm a word freak. I like words. I've always compared writing to music. That's the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it's like music.

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.

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

God's mercy on you degenerate swine.

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life

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.

rain is acid... sex is death....

Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' . . . or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope'. . . but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was politics .

The line between madness and masochism was already hazy;

I had a soft spot in my heart for Ronald Regan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth, and also because his wife gave the best head in Hollywood.

They command a fascination, however reluctant, that borders on psychic masturbation.

Don't say that," I snapped. "We are innocent men! We are working within the system . . . and besides, I think I have some good crank outside in the car.

Whatever else might be said about Nixon—and there is still serious doubt in my mind that he could pass for Human—he is a goddamn stone fanatic on every facet of pro football.

It was an educated fear of the coming shit-rain

Some asshole wrote a poem about that once. It's probably good advice, if you have shit for brains.

With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74

not some romantic leftover, but the first wave of a future that nothing in our history has prepared

I am not a Criminal, by trade, but over the years I have developed a distinctly criminal nervous system. Some people might call it paranoia, but I have lived long enough to know that there is no such thing as paranoia. Not in the 21st Century. No. Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

What election?" he asked. "Never mind," I said. "I was only kidding." One

The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing if Nazis had won the war. This is the Sixth Reich.

Listen, madam," he snapped. "I'm damn near intolerably handsome down here where I am. You'd go crazy if I stood up!

Vehicle… vehicle… vehicle—a very strange looking word, if you stare at it for eight or nine minutes… "Skulking" is another interesting-looking word. And so much for that.

Thompson was inundated with fan mail and phone calls, which he said was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool of mermaids.