"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
— Hunter S. Thompson

"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame & Degradation in the '80's)

"Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why."
— Hunter S. Thompson (The Curse of Lono)

"Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards."
— Hunter S. Thompson

""I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.""
— Libba Bray (Going Bovine)

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."
— Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream)