Hunter S. Thompson

"I understand that it's probably not good to feed your inner demons, but I do it anyway."

"There is not much to like about American politics at any level, but there is absolutely nothing to like about it at the top."

"It was the lawlessness of those days that made living possible."

"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas."

"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 company, we were alone the whole way."

"Objective journalism is one of the greatest shams of the twentieth century."

"Honesty is not a policy. It's a life choice."

"The notion that you can painlessly extract the nationalism from the American value system is probably naive."

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

"I have a terrible memory, thank God."

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."

"I would be remiss not to mention my complete disregard for the law."

"It never got weird enough for me."

"The only reason for doing anything is because you can."

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

"Some people will follow you into the dark just because you're the only one carrying a light."

"In a nation of sheep, one wolf is called a terrorist."

"You can't change what you refuse to confront."

"If you're going to be a writer, you have to develop tolerance for criticism."

"The only time in my life I ever felt optimistic about this country was when I was drunk."

"It is among the ironies of American culture that we reward people for getting old."

"The problem with getting old is that you stop getting young."

"I get paid for my point of view. Not my knowledge of facts."

"Everybody who ever lived has to go to work when they would prefer to play."

"There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that the American Dream might have been a bad idea."

"American culture is about the rejection of constraint and tradition."

"The only honest writing on politics comes from journalists willing to abandon objectivity."

"To believe that your own desire for something means you should have it is dangerous."

"There are times when almost any old thing you might have said becomes attractive to people as a substitute for whatever you just said."

"You can't really get the news from watching the news. It's easier just to read it."