The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.
Hunter S. ThompsonEvery reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?
Hunter S. ThompsonAll we have to do is get out and vote, while it's still legal, and we will wash those crooked warmongers out of the White House.
Hunter S. ThompsonOne of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanentโฆ Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.
Hunter S. ThompsonA little bit of this town goes a very long way. After five days in Vegas you feel like you've been here for five years.
Hunter S. ThompsonThere is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.
Hunter S. Thompson