Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

There is no story unless you’ve written it.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

He had come so far from himself that I don’t think he knew who he was anymore.

The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?

It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

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.

My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

The thing that was important to me about Hemingway at the time was that Hemingway taught me that you could be a writer and get away with it.

Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.