Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

It's important to have people who will say to you that you're really off the beaten track.

I'm a bit crazy, so sometimes I just get these mad ideas that, on paper, aren't even possible.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

I just keep looking for things that are interesting and keep calm as possible about it all, not worrying about being in a 'box.'

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

I've always enjoyed things a little more chaotic than most people would prefer. I feel that I run well in chaos.

Nothing seems too weird to me anymore.

Ever since I was little, I was changing the pace. I think I was just getting bored on the court, so I was trying anything. It's been working ever since. I've been practicing it, and it's obviously throwing off a lot of players.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

I basically expect anything. Isn't that wild? I used to surprise myself a lot: certain moves, how I'd get out of trouble. But at some point, you accept the talent that you have, you accept your creativity.

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.