Quotes About Thompson

What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

Thompson was, by all accounts, a confident man, and not one to be inconvenienced by ignorance if it happened

I love my family in Baltimore. But on their side of the family, I love their cousin Charles Thompson, because he's from New York like me.

Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.

I'm a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.

You do have those guys that talk a lot. I understand they're doing it for a reason, to hype a fight, but then you get guys who do it and you can tell that they're trying too hard.

Born of the Great War, this "trench broom" meant to help American doughboys sweep their way across Europe. But the conflict ended too soon for the Thompson to take part, and many of the fifteen thousand guns in circulation by 1929 ended up in private hands. Because the weapon was so new, few laws governed its sale. Legally purchasing a tommy gun in Chicago, in those days, was easier than acquiring a handgun.

The CDC autism study scandal is far from over. The grave danger now is that the US Government silences Thompson.

Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

I love 'Skins'. I was a huge fan of the British series. I love how everyone is freaking out about it.

O world invisible, we view thee,O world intangible, we touch thee,O world unknowable, we know thee.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.

With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

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