Hunter S. Thompson Epic Quotations

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.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

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

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

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.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

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

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.