“ For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. Hunter S. Thompson
“ We would be attending the conference under false pretenses and dealing, from the start, with a crowd that was convened for the stated purpose of putting people like us in jail. We were the Menace - no… Hunter S. Thompson
“ There is a beautiful consistency about Buzzard; he is a porcupine among men, with his quills always flared. If he won a new car with a raffle ticket bought in his name by some momentary girlfriend, he… Hunter S. Thompson
“ The only thing I ever saw that came close to Objective Journalism was a closed-circuit TV setup that watched shoplifters in the General Store at Woody Creek, Colorado. Hunter S. Thompson
“ Some people will tell you that slow is good – but I’m here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be… Hunter S. Thompson
“ But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. Hunter S. Thompson
“ And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Across the board... Not junkies or freaks, but people who were just as comfortable with drugs like weed, booze, or coke as we are - and we're not weird, are we? Hell no, we're just overworked professi… Hunter S. Thompson
“ A lot of blood has gone under the bridge since then, and we have all learned a hell of a lot about the realities of Politics in America. Even the politicians have learned – but, as usual, the politici… Hunter S. Thompson
“ The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. Hunter S. Thompson
“ I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They… Hunter S. Thompson
“ America...just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable Hunter S. Thompson
“ If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. Hunter S. Thompson
“ You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right. Hunter S. Thompson
“ We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. Hunter S. Thompson
“ There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency. Hunter S. Thompson
