Hunter Stockton Thompson quotes

“The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

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

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

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

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“In my heart, I am always a Raider.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.”

— Hunter Stockton Thompson

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

— Hunter Stockton Thompson