Hunter S. Thompson

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"What is the point of absolute freedom? Without the option of killing myself, what is the point?"

"The edge is still Out there. Or maybe it's not, anymore."

"I have spent more than half my life trying to convince people the truth is still important."

"There are many harsh penalties for drug abuse, but there is not one that will stand up against the kind of high you get from planning and executing a perfect puzzle."

"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of feeling, of trying to get high and then getting down off of it."

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."

"All energy flows according to the whims of the Great Magnet."

"The notion that you can't be a good writer and a good person—it's a myth."

"Do not mistake kindness for weakness."

"In a nation of sheep, one bold man is called insane."

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"

"Education is the most important tool we have to fight ignorance."

"It is absolutely necessary to keep knowledge and information flowing."

"There is no way to fake your way through a real education."

"The room-service Caesar salad was a masterpiece."

"We are turning into a nation of controlled schizophrenics."

"A professional is someone who can do their best work when they don't feel like it."

"The truth seeps out, eventually."

"My evil dream is to make a film in Las Vegas, and then take over the whole city."

"I feel good. I feel fine. I feel like a rock star."

"Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it."

"No more bogus talk about a decent America."

"A leader is someone who has the courage to speak when others are silent."

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."

"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car."

"The best political weapon is the weapon of time."

"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

"There are times when even the most optimistic of us must admit that life is a cruel and barbarous struggle."