Hunter S. Thompson

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'”

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

“Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.”

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

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”

“I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”

“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”

“Good people drink good beer.”

“Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.”

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

“Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.”

“Too weird to live, too rare to die.”