Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

I can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

The writer must be a participant in the scene… like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don’t you’re gonna have me on your hands.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.