“ There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic univ… Hunter S. Thompson
“ There is an important difference between the words 'losers' and 'outlaw.' One is passive and the other is active, and the main reason the Angels are such good copy is that they are acting out the day-… Hunter S. Thompson
“ There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If ma… Hunter S. Thompson
“ The wide receiver had a real taste for crime, and he indulged it with an erratic kind of vigor that made him an albatross for Madden and a natural soulmate for my old friend, Al Davis, who remains the… Hunter S. Thompson
“ The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It's come to the point where you almost can't run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almo… Hunter S. Thompson
“ The Angels don’t like to be called losers, but they have learned to live with it. Yeah, I guess I am, said one. But you’re looking at one loser who’s going to make a hell of a scene on the way out. Hunter S. Thompson
“ Stand in front of this fantastic machine, my friend, and for just 99¢ your likeness will appear, two hundred feet tall, on a screen above downtown Las Vegas. Ninety-nine cents more for a voice message… Hunter S. Thompson
“ So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally b… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat. Hunter S. Thompson
“ No cop was ever born who isn't a sucker for a finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges. Few people understand the psychology of dealin… Hunter S. Thompson
“ My own acid-eating experience is limited in terms of total consumption, but widely varied as to company and circumstances ... and if I had a choice of repeating any one of the half dozen bouts I recal… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth--including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way, through brutal overindulgence. Hunter S. Thompson
“ Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Jesus, you know I was walking back to the huddle and I looked over and, god damn, I almost flipped when I saw you and Davis standing together on the sideline. I thought, man, the world really is chang… Hunter S. Thompson
“ If the thing bites down much harder I might wig out and demand beer... stay away from the phone, watch the red arrow... this typewriter is keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift a… Hunter S. Thompson
“ I'm sure I must have sounded like a fool and a borderline psychotic most of that year, when I talked to people who thought they knew who and where they were at the time ... but looking back, I see tha… Hunter S. Thompson
“ I like this book and I especially like the title. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else. Hunter S. Thompson
“ Consciousness Expansion went out with LBJ … and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon. Hunter S. Thompson
“ But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in th… Hunter S. Thompson
