Quotes by : Hunter S. Thompson

The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out....

There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that....

About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random House)....

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.....

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for....

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once....

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about....

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally....