Hunter S. Thompson Oath Quotations

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

Just sick enough to be totally confident

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

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

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

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

Still humping the American Dream

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

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.

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can’t afford to admit — no matter how often he’s reminded of it — that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley…

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

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

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.