Fear and Loathing Quotes

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.

But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me was confused by it, and interested and turned on. Ever since, his work has meant different things to me, at different times, and I still get new meaning out of it and appreciate it, in a different way. His work is very visceral, and you can take from it what you want, in various moments of your life.

The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.

A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit - no matter how often he's reminded of it - that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.

Still humping the American Dream

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

Just sick enough to be totally confident

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

Myths and legends die hard in America.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.