Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

… there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

I am pretty sure that all young human beings have, at one time or another in their growing-up, been actors. They have used their imaginations to carry them away from painful or confusing situations... have imagined themselves to be more powerful or beautiful or brave or loving than they are.

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

I have a lot of fantasy.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.