Hunter S. Thompson

Fiction is based on reality unless you’re a fairytale artist.

Hunter S. Thompson

For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.

Hunter S. Thompson

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Hunter S. Thompson

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

Hunter S. Thompson

Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Hunter S. Thompson

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.

Hunter S. Thompson

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

Hunter S. Thompson

I couldn’t imagine, and I don’t say this with any pride, but I really couldn’t imagine writing without a desperate deadline.

Hunter S. Thompson

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Hunter S. Thompson