If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

— Hunter S. Thompson

...if that Watergate case ever gets into court, he might get very nervous.

— Hunter S. Thompson

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion—often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation—that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague that there was no sense talking about it.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

— Hunter S. Thompson

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

— Hunter S. Thompson