Hunter S. Thompson: Trending quotes (page 8)

“At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.”

“and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.”

“He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.”

“What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?”

“My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”

“Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.”

“You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.”

“Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.”

“Still humping the American Dream”

“Who said anything about slicing you up?… I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.”

“Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious…”

“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since. The whole thing was a failure.”

“An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.”

“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.”

“A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.”

“All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.”

“You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”

“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs”

“It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.”