Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

I'm a bit crazy, yes.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

I don't really trust a sane person.

I'm not a madman.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

To punish madmen is as great folly as to sympathize with their condition

I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

I think we're all pretty crazy on this bus. I'm not sure I know anyone who's got all the dots on his or her dice.

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

All of us are crazy in one or another way.

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Madness passed me by, she smiled hi. I nodded.

Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.