“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 has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
“Life is beautiful and living is pain.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
“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.”
“I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.”
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
“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.”
“Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.”
“Call on God, but row away from the rocks.”
“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
“There is no story unless you’ve written it.”
“It never got weird enough for me.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.”
“Kill the body and the head will die.”
“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.”
“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.”
“Journalism, to me, is just another drug – a free ride to scenes I’d probably miss if I stayed straight.”
“We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.”
“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.”
“If you get people asking the wrong questions, you don’t have to worry about the answers.”
“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.”
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem.”
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
“Good people drink good beer.”
“Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!”
“I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.”
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