Quote

I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.

Hunter S. Thompson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Art
Abilities
Better
Managed
Book
Stealing
Something
Called
Coattails
Always
Books
Gonzo
Think
Ability
Ralph
Thinking
Free
Whiskey
Like
Business
Introduction

More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Image
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Good people drink good beer.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time--and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
All advice can only be a product of the man who gives it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I've been studying drugs for years.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal - to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I was once arrested with [Allen] Ginsburg. He was a big help to me. He was one of the few people who read unknown writer's work. Maybe he was just hustling me. He liked to flirt, Allen. They called him a monster but he was only falling in love.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
Hunter S. Thompson