Gary > Gary's Quotes

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”
― Tom Robbins

“You're either on the bus or off the bus.”
― Ken Kesey

“Boy, you ain't a poet ...
just a drunk with a pen.”
― Hayes Carll

“Whiskey don't make liars
it just makes fools.”
― James McMurtry

“Wanda Bone Bouvier had that thing that makes a hound leap against its cage. It ws a quality that was partly a bonus from nature and partly learned from cheesecake calendars and Tanya Tucker albums.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Muscle for the Wing

“It's a circus out there, mama
and your baby's got the sideshow blues.”
― Todd Snider

“... spread your arms
and hold your breath
and always trust your cape.”
― Guy Clark

“Seems like every time I give my heart
It's a couple of good years
And then the bullshit starts”
― Hayes Carll

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“ ... a part-time pirate can't get much respect around here.”
― James McMurtry

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“You know why God invented Golf?' Service asked the ME, who shrugged. 'To keep assholes off trout streams.”
― Joseph Heywood, Shadow of the Wolf Tree

“It is a cold and harrowing morning in the life of a man the day he wakes up, looks at himself in the mirror, and finally realizes that he is not, never has been, nor will ever be George Clooney.”
― Ted Heller, Pocket Kings

“I have never seen much point in getting heavy with stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I... And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?”
― Carl Sandburg