Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather a skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "WOW, what a ride!"

...he was frustrated by the knowledge that the best he could do...would be to run onto the field and cause some kind of illegal trouble, then be hauld off by guards while the crowd laughed.

Goddamnit, man, I tell you it's fear of the sack!

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. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later.

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.

Sex, drugs, and insanity have always worked for me, but I wouldn't recommend them for everyone.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.