Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Too many cops.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but in my case it's always worked.

Life has become immeasurably more interesting since I decided to follow the advice of my wife and my analyst: to be myself.

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that kills, now it's the speed that saves. New York is a safe harbor. The only problem is that the harbor is full of sharks.

I am a professional, and I will be paid.

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 whiskey is good, the marijuana is good, and the company is good. What more could a man ask for?

I'm a little bit weird, I'm a little bit off, but it's okay. I like it that way.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

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 mothers and our lovers and friends, we have failed to make permanent contact with anyone with whom we can identify. Every man takes his own acts to the grave. There is no living without pain—but the pain of being alone is an unbearable pain; and at times, it seems that there is no escape from it.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.

It was a good ride. There's no point in regretting any of it.

Some may never live, but the crazy ones never die.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is all I need.

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are more likely to get elected than leaders.

I was never a 'drug addict' or a 'drinker.' I was a user. I used drugs and alcohol to get where I wanted to be.

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

The only thing I ever really wanted to be was a professional football player. I was a hell of a halfback in high school.