“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
“Too weird to live, too rare to die!”
“Life is beautiful and living is pain.”
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
“Anything worth doing is worth doing well.”
“Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”
“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
“There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.”
“Walk tall, kick ass, learn to speak Arabic, love music and never forget you come from a long line of truth seekers, lovers and warriors.”
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.”
“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.”
“You can’t miss what you never had.”
“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
“Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”
“I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.”
“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.”
“You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”
“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”
“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
“There is no story unless you’ve written it.”
“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.”
“Kill the body and the head will die.”
“It never got weird enough for me.”
“We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.”
“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.”
“Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I’d probably miss if I stayed straight.”
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”
“We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.”
“As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.”
“Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.”
“The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.”
“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.”
“If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don’t have to worry about the answers.”
“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
“I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.”
“Good people drink good beer.”
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem.”
“Just sick enough to be totally confident.”
“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”
“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”
“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.”
“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.”
“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
“There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says ‘Good people drink good beer.’ Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.”
“On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.”
“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.”
“Remember this, folks – I am a Hillbilly, and I don’t always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.”
“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”
“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”
“As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.”
“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”
“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”
“Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.”
“Relax – This won’t hurt.”
“Poor bastard. Wait ’till he sees the bats.”
“As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.”
“We are all wired into a survival trip, now.”
“No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.”
“Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.”
“All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.”
“The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.”
“Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.”
“I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.”
“Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.”
“It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.”
“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
“Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.”
“Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.”
“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”
“I feel trapped if I know I can’t kill myself at anytime.”
“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.”
“I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.”
“Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.”
“What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.”
“I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting.”
“It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.”
“I am a road man for the lords of karma.”
“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”
“You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.”
“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”
“Of Richard M. Nixon: A foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.”
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
“Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner’s idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism...”
“Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
“I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.”
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