Hunter S. Thompson — "I was never a big fan of the '60s. I was always a little bit ahead of them."

"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."

"It's a strange world, a crazy world, a world where the good guys don't always win."

"As a man, I’ve always been interested in the truth. As a journalist, I’ve always been interested in the facts. And as a human being, I’ve always been interested in the humor."

"America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money in the world and still not happy."

"As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be so deathly dull."