“ From the very beginning Ihad felt a definite contact with Yeamon, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to fi… Hunter S. Thompson
“ You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. Hunter S. Thompson
“ Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious. Hunter S. Thompson
“ Things are no longer what they seem to be. My telephones are haunted, and animals whisper at me from unseen places. Hunter S. Thompson
“ There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, a… Hunter S. Thompson
“ There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. Hunter S. Thompson
“ The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixtie… Hunter S. Thompson
“ It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the… Hunter S. Thompson
“ It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wan… Hunter S. Thompson
“ In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down… Hunter S. Thompson
“ I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why no… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and… Hunter S. Thompson
“ This wavering paradox is a pillar of the outlaw stance. A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't aff… Hunter S. Thompson
“ That gin-soaked little Nazi from the Gazette got pissed off when you didn’t doff your hat for the national anthem, Burgin explained. He kept bitching about you to the guy in charge of the press box, t… Hunter S. Thompson
“ I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, Hell yes, I'm from Texas, deserves whatever happe… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the… Hunter S. Thompson
