Hunter S. Thompson

"In the end, we will only regret the chances we didn't take."

"Death is a small price to pay for immortality."

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

"We are not going to be pushed around by the establishment."

"The only thing that matters in this life is the exact amount of control you can exert over your own reality."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride, but always know where the exit is."

"Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a adventure."

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

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs."

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

"There was madness in any attempt now to look at things with a rational eye."

"The main thing is never to stop asking questions."

"In a nation of sheep, one honest man is called a traitor."

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."

"The press is one of the few institutions that has the power to shake the foundations of government."

"Good people drink good beer."

"Most of what I've written about has already happened to other people by the time I write about it."

"I have a theory that the truth is like a lion; you don't have to bring it down, it will come down on its own."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"You can't test courage cautiously."

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

"We are living through the worst period of journalism in American history."

"The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics man, which is very dangerous in a republic."

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

"I have learned that I have never learned anything that I needed to know."

"There is a terrible zoo of defeated men and women in this country."

"No point mentioning the lizards. If I mentioned the lizards I'd have to explain that there were only two of them."

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

"What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all."

"I was not able to discover why the universe ever wanted such a collection of misfits."