More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
"Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."