Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

Reality became for me a problem after my experience with LSD. Before, I had believed there was only one reality, the reality of everyday life. Just one true reality and the rest was imagination and was not real. But under the influence of LSD, I entered into realities which were as real and even more real than the one of everyday. And I thought about the nature of reality and I got some deeper insights.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

Reality has always had too many heads.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

The order I found was the order of disorder

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.