Quotes

“The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

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

“All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

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

“Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“In my heart, I am always a Raider.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.” Hunter Stockton Thompson

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” Henry David Thoreau

“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” Henry David Thoreau

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Henry David Thoreau

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” Henry David Thoreau

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Henry David Thoreau

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” Henry David Thoreau

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” Henry David Thoreau