Quotes About Thompson

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....

The line between madness and masochism was already hazy;

I suspect we could have done the whole thing on acid … except for some of the people; there were faces and bodies in that group who would have been absolutely unendurable on acid.

Hey, honkies!" my attorney screamed. "Goddamnit, I'm serious! I want to sell you some pure fuckin' smack!

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.

I feel The Fear coming on, and the only cure for that is to chew up a fat black wad of blood-opium about the size of a young meatball and then call a cab for a fast run down to that strip of X-film houses on 14th Street… peel back the brain, let the opium take hold, and get locked into serious pornography.

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

As your attorney, I advise you to tell me where you put the goddamn mescaline.

With rare exceptions, the outlaw bike is a Harley 74

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.

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

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

He Smiled. A great town, that Vegas. You'll have good luck there; you're they type. I know, I said. I'm a Triple Scorpio.

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!

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

When I watched the first fight between Woodley and Thompson, and I want to make clear that I really admire both guys, for me the fight was really boring at UFC 205 because nobody pulled the trigger for three rounds. The fourth round there was a scramble and that was really exciting, but then the fifth round was so-so again.

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.

The Killer Inside Me is a chilling first-person story of an evil lawman, while Pop. 1280 is a strangely funny version of the same plot. Of all the noir writers, Thompson is the most popular today, in part because several of his novels, including The Grifters, were successfully adapted for film.

I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson.