More - Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

 Advice Drugs

Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink.

Hunter S. Thompson

 Alcohol And Alcoholism

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Hunter S. Thompson

 Publishing And Publishers

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

 American Journalist

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Hunter S. Thompson

 American Journalist Business

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

 America American Journalist

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died

Hunter S. Thompson

 

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson

 Sports

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

Hunter S. Thompson

 

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

 Law And Lawyers