Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival – the freaks who bite the heads off chickens – but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.