Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories Quotes

“I use the word kill with all due respect for the fear and loathing I'm sure it provokes in every one of you when you reflect that these degenerate rapists used this galaxy of narcotics to completely destroy the mind and morals of this once-innocent teenager, this ruined and degraded young girl who now sits before you in shame... yes, they fed this girl enough drugs to scramble her brain so horribly that she can no longer even recall the filthy details of that orgy she was forced to endure... and then they used her ladies and gentlemen of the jury, for their own unspeakable ends!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

“I was a relatively respectable citizen-- a multiple felon, perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

“Hallucinations are bad enough. But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

“The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing on Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories

“We finally got into the suite around dusk, and my attorney was immediately on the phone to room service-ordering four club sandwiches, four shrimp cocktails, a quart of rum and nine fresh grapefruits. "Vitamin C," he explained. "We'll need all we can get.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories