Hunter S. Thompson Reality Quotations

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.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Reality itself is too twisted.

Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.