Hunter S Thompson quotes

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

" I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. " # Advice # Drugs # Sex

" I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. " # Truth # Theory # Time and Time Management

" Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism -- and the best journalists have always known this. True gonzo reporting needs the talents of a master journalist, the eye of an artist/photographer and the heavy balls of an actor. Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it -- or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character. " # Journalism and Journalists # Cinema # Writers and Writing

" I was also drunk, crazy and heavily armed at all times. People trembled and cursed when I came into a public room and started screaming in German. " # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Love # Language

" In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. " # Animals # Politicians and Politics # America

" Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. " # Twentieth Century # Words # Ignorance

" Some may never live, but the crazy never die. " # Death and Dying # Life and Living # Love

" He who is always his own counselor will often have a fool for his client. " # Fools and Foolishness

" I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. " # Love