Hunter S. Thompson

"I consider myself a fairly responsible person."

"The only way to write is to write as if you're the last person on earth."

"I have no sympathy for people who take themselves too seriously."

"The best argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter."

"I believe that the struggle against evil is the engine of all human progress."

"You cannot be anything you want to be, but you can be a lot more of what you already are."

"The only way to deal with bureaucracy is to become incomprehensible."

"There is no point in trying to understand evil. It simply exists."

"I have learned that success is ninety percent luck and ten percent skill."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"The struggle to remain true to yourself is the most important battle you'll ever fight."

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."

"There was nothing but an old nature that made no sense."

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

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."

"The only thing that really matters in life is the pleasure of reading."

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was important."

"Freedom is something that dies if it's not exercised."

"Good people drink good beer."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"There is no point in mentioning heroin use in the year 1971 unless and until the user can handle the implications."

"Just say hello to people. Try to be nice. Show up."

"Genius is not a crowded field."

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

"A persistent myth in American life is that artists thrive on poverty and failure."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."